Luke 4:2

New American Bible - revised edition

for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over he was hungry.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; They will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel.

1 Kings 19:8

He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Exodus 24:18

But Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up on the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

So Moses was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

Jonah 3:7

Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh: “By decree of the king and his nobles, no man or beast, no cattle or sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water.

Matthew 21:18

When he was going back to the city in the morning, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2

He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards 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. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then, as before, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no food, I drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed in the sight of the Lord, doing wrong and provoking him.

Deuteronomy 9:25

Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the Lord, because he had threatened to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9

when I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you. Meanwhile I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no food and drank no water.

Hebrews 2:18

Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

Meanwhile the Philistine came forward and took his stand morning and evening for forty days.