Matthew 4:2 - Plain English Version

² Jesus was there for 40 days, and he didn’t eat anything, so he got very hungry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And He went without food for forty days and forty nights, and later He was hungry. [Exod. 34:28; I Kings 19:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.

Common English Bible

² After Jesus had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he was starving.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And when he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2 Cross References

Matthew 25:35

You see, at one time I was hungry, and you gave me some food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me some water to drink. I was a stranger with no-where to live, so you took me into your home.

Matthew 25:42

You see, I was hungry, but you didn’t give me anything to eat. I was thirsty, but you didn’t give me a drink.

Mark 11:12

The next morning, Jesus and his followers started to walk from Bethany back to Jerusalem. Jesus saw a tree not far away. It was the sort of tree that gets fruit, called figs. Jesus was hungry, so he went to look for some figs on that tree, but there was nothing. It had lots of leaves, but no fruit. You see, it was not yet the right time of the year for that sort of fruit.