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Luke 4:2

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

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

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

4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
KJV
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
WEB
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
ASV
during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.
DARBY
forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.
BLB
being tempted forty days by the devil. And He ate nothing in those days, and [on] their having ended, He was hungry.
ÅB
og i førti dager fristet av djevelen. Og han spiste intet i de dager, og da de var til ende, ble han hungrig.
OTB
hvor han i førti dager ble fristet av djevelen. Han spiste ingenting i de dagene, og da de var over, ble han sulten.
B1930
og i firti dager fristet av djevelen. Og han åt intet i de dager, og da de var til ende, blev han hungrig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Exodus 34:28

    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.

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  • Hebrews 4:15

    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.

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  • 1 Kings 19:8

    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.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:9

    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.

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  • Hebrews 2:18

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

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  • Deuteronomy 9:18

    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 and provoking Him to anger.

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  • John 4:6

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

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  • Matthew 4:2

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

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