After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Parallel translations
- WEB When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
- KJV And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- NKJV And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
- NASB And after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
- NLT For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
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Quick answer
After fasting forty days and nights, Jesus is hungry. His genuine hunger shows his true humanity and the reality of the test.
Overview
The forty-day fast recalls Moses and Elijah and Israel's forty years in the wilderness, casting Jesus as fulfilling that history faithfully. His real hunger underscores that he was truly human and that the temptation that follows was a genuine trial. In weakness he will nonetheless prove perfectly obedient.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 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.
- Exod 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.
- 1 Kgs 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.
- 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.
- Deut 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.
- Exod 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Deut 9:25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
- Mark 11:12The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus 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.
- Deut 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.
- Heb 2:14–17Now 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,
- Matt 21:18In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.
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