Luke 4:2 - Tree of Life Version

² for forty days, being tested by the devil. Now He ate nothing during those days, and when they had 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 animosity between you and the woman— between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel.

1 Kings 19:8

So he arose and ate and drank, and in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights went to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Esther 4:16

“Go! Gather together all the Jews who are in Shushan and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast in the same way. Afterwards, I will go in to the king, even though it is not according to the law. So if I perish, I perish!”

Exodus 24:18

So Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up onto the mountain. Moses was on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

Exodus 34:28

So he stayed there with Adonai for 40 days and 40 nights, and he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant: the Ten Words.

Jonah 3:7

He made a proclamation saying: “In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, no man or beast, herd or flock, may taste anything. They must not graze nor drink water.

Matthew 21:18

Now early in the morning, as He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

Matthew 4:2

After He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

Luke 4:3

The devil said to Him, “If You are Ben-Elohim, tell this stone to become bread.”

John 4:6

Now Jacob’s well was there. So Yeshua, exhausted from the journey, was sitting by the well. It was midday.

Deuteronomy 9:18

“Then I fell down before Adonai like the first time, for 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water—because of all your sin that you committed, doing evil in Adonai’s sight, provoking Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“So I threw myself down before Adonai those 40 days and 40 nights, because Adonai had said He would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Adonai cut with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water.

Hebrews 2:18

Because He Himself suffered when put to the test, He is able to help those being tested.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a kohen gadol who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all the same ways—yet without sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

For forty days that Philistine would come out every morning and evening to present himself.