Luke 4:2

Amplified Bible

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they ended, He was hungry. [Deut 9:9; 1 Kin 19:8]

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

“And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel.” [Gal 4:4]

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews that are present in Susa, and observe a fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids also will fast in the same way. Then I will go in to [see] the king [without being summoned], which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and he was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Jonah 3:7

He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No man, animal, herd, or flock is to taste anything. They are not to eat or drink water.

Matthew 21:18

Now early in the morning, as Jesus was coming back to the city, He was hungry. [Mark 11:12-14, 20-24]

Matthew 4:2

After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry. [Ex 34:28; 1 Kin 19:8]

Luke 4:3

Then the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to turn into bread.”

John 4:6

and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then, as before, I fell down before the Lord for [another] forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water, because of all the sin you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“So I fell down and lay face down before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord 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 which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water.

Hebrews 2:18

Because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted, He is able to help and provide immediate assistance to those who are being tempted and exposed to suffering.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted [knowing exactly how it feels to be human] in every respect as we are, yet without [committing any] sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

The Philistine [Goliath] came out morning and evening, and took his stand for forty days.