Matthew 4:2
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
3 The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
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.
Compare
- BSB
- After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
- KJV
- And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- WEB
- When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
- ASV
- And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
- DARBY
- and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.
- BLB
- And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
- ÅB
- Og da han hadde fastet førti dager og førti netter, ble han til slutt sulten.
- OTB
- Etter å ha fastet i førti dager og førti netter, ble han sulten.
- B1930
- Og da han hadde fastet firti dager og firti netter, blev han til sist hungrig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in contextExodus 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.
Read in context1 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.
Read in contextLuke 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:25
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
Read in contextExodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Read in contextJohn 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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