Matthew 4:2
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
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- Exod 34:28 : 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Deut 9:9 : 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 there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
- Deut 9:18 : 18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.
- John 4:6 : 6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
- Heb 2:14-17 : 14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death(that is, the devil), 15 and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death. 16 For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants. 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
- Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Deut 9:25 : 25 Moses’ Plea on Behalf of God’s Reputation I lay flat on the ground before the LORD for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.
- Deut 18:18 : 18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.
- Matt 21:18 : 18 The Withered Fig Tree Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
- Mark 11:12 : 12 Cursing of the Fig Tree Now the next day, as they went out from Bethany, he was hungry.
- Luke 4:2 : 2 where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
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- Luke 4:1-55 verses92%
1The Temptation of Jesus Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
2where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
3The devil said to him,“If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
4Jesus answered him,“It is written,‘Man does not live by bread alone.’”
5Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.
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3The tempter came and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”
4But he answered,“It is written,‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
5Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,
6and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written,‘He will command his angels concerning you’ and‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
7Jesus said to him,“Once again it is written:‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
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1The Temptation of Jesus Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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12The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.
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9Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,
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8So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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3Jesus answered them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
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28So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.
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1The Feeding of the Four Thousand In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,
2“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.
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32But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33So the disciples began to say to one another,“No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”
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3He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
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1The Second Journey to Egypt Now the famine was severe in the land.
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24I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.
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4His disciples answered him,“Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”
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18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
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42They all ate and were satisfied,