Luke 4:2
Good News Translation
where he was tempted by the Devil for forty days. In all that time he ate nothing, so that he was hungry when it was over.

New Revised Standard Version
where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.

Contemporary English Version
For 40 days Jesus was tested by the devil, and during that time he went without eating. When it was all over, he was hungry.

New American Bible
for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over he was hungry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

forty.

Exodus 24:18 And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:9,18,25 When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water. . . .

1 Kings 19:8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

tempted.

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

1 Samuel 17:16 Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

Hebrews 2:18 For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

he did.

Esther 4:16 Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.

Jonah 3:7 And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

he afterward.

Matthew 21:18 And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.

John 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

Context
The Temptation of Jesus
1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert, 2For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:28
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.

1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Luke 4:3
And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.

Luke 4:1
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