Luke 4:2
where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
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- 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Exod 34:28 : 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. 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 made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
- Heb 2:18 : 18 For since he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
- Heb 4:15 : 15 For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.
- John 4:6 : 6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
- Deut 9:18 : 18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.
- Deut 9:25 : 25 Moses’ Plea on Behalf of God’s Reputation I lay flat on the ground before the LORD for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.
- 1 Sam 17:16 : 16 Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.
- Esth 4:16 : 16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”
- Jonah 3:7 : 7 He issued a proclamation and said,“In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.
- Matt 4:2 : 2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
- Matt 21:18 : 18 The Withered Fig Tree Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
- Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
- Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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- Matt 4:1-1111 verses92%
1 The Temptation of Jesus Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
3 The tempter came and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”
4 But he answered,“It is written,‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,
6 and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written,‘He will command his angels concerning you’ and‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
7 Jesus said to him,“Once again it is written:‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.
9 And he said to him,“I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me.”
10 Then Jesus said to him,“Go away, Satan! For it is written:‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to his needs.
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1 The Temptation of Jesus Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
- Luke 4:3-97 verses84%
3 The devil said to him,“If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
4 Jesus answered him,“It is written,‘Man does not live by bread alone.’”
5 Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.
6 And he said to him,“To you I will grant this whole realm– and the glory that goes along with it, for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.
7 So then, if you will worship me, all this will be yours.”
8 Jesus answered him,“It is written,‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
9 Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,
- Mark 1:12-132 verses84%
12 The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.
13 He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.
- Luke 4:12-143 verses79%
12 Jesus answered him,“It is said,‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
13 So when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a more opportune time.
14 The Beginning of Jesus’ Ministry in Galilee Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.
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12 Cursing of the Fig Tree Now the next day, as they went out from Bethany, he was hungry.
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8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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18 The Withered Fig Tree Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
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3 Jesus answered them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
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28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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33 As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying,“Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense and have gone without food; you have eaten nothing.
- Mark 8:1-22 verses69%
1 The Feeding of the Four Thousand In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,
2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.
- John 4:31-322 verses69%
31 Workers for the Harvest Meanwhile the disciples were urging him,“Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
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10 He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.
- Matt 12:3-42 verses68%
3 He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
4 how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?
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42 The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.
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3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.
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9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
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18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say,‘He has a demon!’
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43 and he took it and ate it in front of them.
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18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment.
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40 When he came to the place, he said to them,“Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”
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16 He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
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25 He said to them,“Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry–
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35 When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said,“This is an isolated place and it is already very late.
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4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.
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33 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say,‘He has a demon!’
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20 Jesus and Beelzebul Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.