Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.