Matthew 4:2
1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of 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
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Read in contextExodus 34:28
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Read in context1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Read in contextLuke 4:2
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:25
Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Read in contextExodus 24:18
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Read in contextJohn 4:6
Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
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