Verse 2

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

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  • 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 So he got up, ate, and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
  • Exod 34:28 : 28 Moses was there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights. He did not eat any bread or drink any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
  • Deut 9:9 : 9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.
  • Heb 2:18 : 18 Because He Himself has suffered when tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are—yet without sin.
  • John 4:6 : 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
  • Deut 9:18 : 18 Then I fell down before the LORD as I had done before, for forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and provoking him to anger.
  • Deut 9:25 : 25 So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, just as I had done before, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
  • 1 Sam 17:16 : 16 The Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand for forty days.
  • Esth 4:16 : 16 Go, gather all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.
  • Jonah 3:7 : 7 Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not graze or drink water.
  • Matt 4:2 : 2 After fasting for forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
  • Matt 21:18 : 18 Early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 'And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.'
  • Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.