Luke 4:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² for forty days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For (during) forty days in the wilderness (desert), where He was tempted (tried, tested exceedingly) by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, He was hungry. [Deut. 9:9; I Kings 19:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.

Common English Bible

² There he was tempted for forty days by the devil. He ate nothing during those days and afterward Jesus was starving.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² for forty days, and he was tested by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were completed, he was hungry.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² For the space of forty days; and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.

Luke 4:2 Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

1 Kings 19:8

And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Exodus 24:18

And Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Jonah 3:7

And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,

Matthew 21:18

In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2

And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.

Luke 4:3

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

John 4:6

Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Hebrews 2:18

For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Hebrews 4:15

For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.