Luke 4:2

New Century Version

where the devil tempted Jesus for forty days. Jesus ate nothing during that time, and when those days were ended, he was very hungry.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel.”

1 Kings 19:8

So Elijah got up and ate and drank. The food made him strong enough to walk for forty days and nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.

Esther 4:16

“Go and get all the Jewish people in Susa together. For my sake, fast; do not eat or drink for three days, night and day. I and my servant girls will also fast. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I die, I die.”

Exodus 24:18

Then Moses went into the cloud and went higher up the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

Moses stayed there with the Lord forty days and forty nights, and during that time he did not eat food or drink water. And Moses wrote the words of the Agreement—the Ten Commandments—on the stone tablets.

Jonah 3:7

He sent this announcement through Nineveh: By command of the king and his important men: No person or animal, herd or flock, will be allowed to taste anything. Do not let them eat food or drink water.

Matthew 21:18

Early the next morning, as Jesus was going back to the city, he became hungry.

Matthew 4:2

Jesus fasted for forty days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.

Luke 4:3

The devil said to Jesus, “If you are the Son of God, tell this rock to become bread.”

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from his long trip, so he sat down beside the well. It was about twelve o’clock noon.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I again bowed facedown on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water. You had sinned by doing what the Lord said was evil, and you made him angry.

Deuteronomy 9:25

The Lord had said he would destroy you, so I threw myself down in front of him for those forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up on the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets with the Agreement the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water.

Hebrews 2:18

And now he can help those who are tempted, because he himself suffered and was tempted.

Hebrews 4:15

For our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he did not sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

For forty days the Philistine came out every morning and evening and stood before the Israelite army.