Matthew 4:2 “After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.”

Matthew 4:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

World English Bible

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

American Standard Version

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.

Geneva Bible 1599

And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nights, he was afterward hungrie.

Darby Translation

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

Young's Literal Translation

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

Bible in Basic English

And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.

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Cross references

“fasted”

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

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…

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.

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.

Luke 4:2 · BSB

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

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.

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.

“he was”

Mark 11:12 John 4:6 Hebrews 2:14–17 Matthew 21:18

Mark 11:12 · BSB

The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus was hungry.

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.

Hebrews 2:14–17 · BSB

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

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 was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

3The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

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