Luke 4:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

where for forty days he was tested by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over he was famished.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

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

1 Kings 19:8

He got up and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Jonah 3:7

Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water.

Matthew 21:18

In the morning, when he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2

He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished.

Luke 4:3

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

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Hebrews 2:18

Because he himself was tested by 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 we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

1 Samuel 17:16

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