Luke 4:2

New International Version

where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

Exodus 24:18

Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Jonah 3:7

This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.

Matthew 21:18

Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Luke 4:3

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

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25

I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

Hebrews 2:18

Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

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