the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Matthew 4:2
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Jesus ate nothing for 40 days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.
And when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes he was afterward an hungred.
After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he finally became hungry.
And after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
Jesus fasted for forty days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward was hungry.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.
After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry.
There He fasted for forty days and nights; and after that He suffered from hunger.
And whanne he hadde fastid fourti daies and fourti nyytis, aftirward he hungride.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
After Jesus had gone without eating for forty days and nights, he was very hungry.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
After Yeshua had fasted forty days and nights, he was hungry.
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.
And he fasted forty days and forty nights; but afterward he hungered.
And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he hungered.
And when hee had fasted forty dayes and forty nights, hee was afterward an hungred.
For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
Jesus went without food for forty days and forty nights. After that He was hungry.
He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.
And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nights, he was afterward hungrie.
So he fasted forty days and forty nights; but at last he was hungry.
and, fasting forty days and forty nights, - afterwards, he hungered.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.
And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, he was afterwarde an hungred.
After spending forty days and nights without food, Jesus was hungry.
After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
and after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He hungered.
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.
And when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes, he was afterward an hungred.
there having fasted forty days and forty nights, he at length grew hungry.
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
Jesus was famished after not eating for forty days and nights.
And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fasted: Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:9, Deuteronomy 9:18, Deuteronomy 9:25, Deuteronomy 18:18, 1 Kings 19:8, Luke 4:2
he was: Matthew 21:18, Mark 11:12, John 4:6, Hebrews 2:14-17
Reciprocal: Genesis 7:12 - forty 1 Samuel 17:16 - forty days Psalms 95:6 - O come Psalms 109:24 - knees Mark 8:2 - and have Acts 1:3 - forty Acts 10:10 - he became
Cross-References
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord .
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when he had fasted forty days..... As Moses did, when he was about to deliver the law to the Israelites, Exodus 34:28 and as Elijah did, when he bore his testimony for the Lord of hosts,
1 Kings 19:8 so did Christ, when he was about to publish the Gospel of his grace, and bear witness to the truth. "Forty nights" as well as days, are mentioned; partly to show that these were whole entire days, consisting of twenty four hours; and partly to distinguish this fast of Christ from the common fastings of the Jews, who used to eat in the night, though they fasted in the day: for according to their canons z, they might eat and drink as soon as it was dark, and that till cock crowing; and others say, till break of day. Maimonides a says, they might eat and drink at night, in all fasts, except the ninth of Ab. What is very surprising in this fasting of our Lord, which was made and recorded, not for our imitation, is, that during the whole time he should not be attended with hunger; for it is added,
he was afterwards an hungered; that is, as Luke says, "when" the "forty" days "were ended", Luke 4:2 which seized upon him, and is related, both to express the reality of his human nature, which though miraculously supported for so long a time without food, and insensible of hunger, yet at length had appetite for food; and also that very advantageous opportunity Satan had to attack him in the manner he did, with his first temptation.
z T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 12. 1, 2. Misn. Taanith, c. 1. sect. 5. a Hilch. Taanith, c. 5. sect. 5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Had fasted - Abstained from food.
Forty days and forty nights - It has been questioned by some whether Christ abstained wholly from food, or only from the food to which he was accustomed. Luke says Luke 4:2 that he ate nothing. This settles the question. Mark says Mark 1:13 that angels came and ministered unto him. At first view this would seem to imply that he did eat during that time. But Mark does not mention the time when the angels performed this office of kindness, and we are at liberty to suppose that he means to say that it was done at the close of the 40 days; and the rather as Matthew, after giving an account of the temptation, says the same thing Matthew 4:2. There are other instances of persons fasting 40 days recorded in the Scriptures. Thus, Moses fasted 40 days, Exodus 34:28. Elijah also fasted the same length of time, 1 Kings 19:8. In these cases they were no doubt miraculously supported.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 4:2. And when he had fasted forty days — It is remarkable that Moses, the great lawgiver of the Jews, previously to his receiving the law from God, fasted forty days in the mount; that Elijah, the chief of the prophets, fasted also forty days; and that Christ, the giver of the New Covenant, should act in the same way. Was not all this intended to show, that God's kingdom on earth was to be spiritual and Divine? - that it should not consist in meat and drink, but in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost? Romans 14:17. Relative to the forty days' fast of Moses, there is a beautiful saying in the Talmudists. "Is it possible that any man can fast forty days and forty nights? To which Rabbi Meir answered, When thou takest up thy abode in any particular city, thou must live according to its customs. Moses ascended to heaven, where they neither eat nor drink therefore he became assimilated to them. We are accustomed to eat and drink; and, when angels descend to us, they eat and drink also." Moses, Elijah, and our blessed Lord could fast forty days and forty nights, because they were in communion with God, and living a heavenly life.
