Luke 4:2

New Living Translation

where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.

Esther 4:16

“Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”

Exodus 24:18

Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the Lord wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments—on the stone tablets.

Jonah 3:7

Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: “No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all.

Matthew 21:18

In the morning, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem, he was hungry,

Matthew 4:2

For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.

Luke 4:3

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

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.

Deuteronomy 9:18

“Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“That is why I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights—for the Lord said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9

This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.

Hebrews 2:18

Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.

Hebrews 4:15

This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

For forty days, every morning and evening, the Philistine champion strutted in front of the Israelite army.