Matthew 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
3The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”
Cross References
Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud and went up the mountain. He was up the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 9:25So I lay facedown before Yahweh those forty days and forty nights, because he had said that he would destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8So he arose and ate and drank, and he traveled in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Mark 11:12The next day, when they returned from Bethany, he was hungry.
John 4:6The well of Jacob was there. Jesus was tired from his journey and 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 →