Matthew 4:2
After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
In Context
1Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.
Cross References
Mark 11:12On the next day, as they went out from Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
John 4:6Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, wearied as he was from the journey, sat by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:2-12
The Temptation of Christ. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a… Read the whole commentary →