Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
In Context
1Then was Jesus led by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil.
Cross References
Exodus 24:18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount: and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9When I ascended the mount, to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither ate bread, nor drank water:
Deuteronomy 9:25Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first ; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Mark 11:12And on the morrow, when they had come from Bethany, he was hungry,
John 4:6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and 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 →