Matthew 4:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.”
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BSBPD
“After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Matthew 4:2 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Exodus 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
- Deuteronomy 9:9When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
- Deuteronomy 9:18Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
- 1 Kings 19:8So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Matthew 21:18In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.
- Mark 11:12The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
- Luke 4:2where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
- John 4:6Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- Hebrews 2:14Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
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