Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nights, he was afterward hungrie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
In Context
1Then was Iesus led aside of the Spirit into the wildernes, to be tempted of the deuil.
Cross References
Exodus 24:18And Moses entred into the middes of the cloude, and went vp to the mountaine: and Moses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourty nightes.
Deuteronomy 9:9When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant, which the Lord made with you: and I abode in the mount fourtie daies and fourtie nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet dranke water:
Deuteronomy 9:25Then I fell downe before ye Lord fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, as I fell downe before, because ye Lord had said, that he woulde destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8Then he arose, and did eate and drinke, and walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, vnto Horeb the mount of God.
Mark 11:12And on the morowe when they were come out from Bethania, he was hungry.
John 4:6And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then wearied in the iourney, sate thus on the well: it was about the sixt houre.
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 →