Luke 4:2 “where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing durin…”

Luke 4:2

where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

World English Bible

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

American Standard Version

during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.

Geneva Bible 1599

And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, and in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.

Darby Translation

forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

Young's Literal Translation

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

Bible in Basic English

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

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Cross references

“forty”

Exodus 34:28 Deuteronomy 9:9 1 Kings 19:8 Deuteronomy 9:18 Matthew 4:2 Exodus 24:18

Exodus 34:28 · BSB

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

1 Kings 19:8 · BSB

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Deuteronomy 9:18 · BSB

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD…

Matthew 4:2 · BSB

After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

Exodus 24:18 · BSB

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

“tempted”

Hebrews 2:18 Genesis 3:15 1 Samuel 17:16

Hebrews 2:18 · BSB

Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.

Genesis 3:15 · BSB

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. ”

1 Samuel 17:16 · BSB

For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.

“he did”

Esther 4:16 Jonah 3:7

Esther 4:16 · BSB

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is ag…

Jonah 3:7 · BSB

Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.

“he afterward”

Hebrews 4:15 John 4:6 Matthew 21:18

Hebrews 4:15 · BSB

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

John 4:6 · BSB

Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Matthew 21:18 · BSB

In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

3The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

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