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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

路加福音 4:2

那些日子他甚麼也沒有吃,日子滿了他就餓了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fasting;   Hunger;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Satan;   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christ;   Days;   Divinity-Humanity;   Fasting;   Forty Days;   Humanity, Christ's;   Periods and Numbers;   Satan;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Victory;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Demon;   Temptation, Test;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Worship of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Holy Spirit;   Luke, Gospel of;   Temptation;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Devil;   Jesus Christ;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Asceticism (2);   Day;   Dependence;   Force;   Guide;   Hunger;   Logia;   Loneliness;   Manliness;   Numbers (2);   Popularity;   Pride (2);   Selfishness;   Silence;   Stone;   Struggles of Soul;   Temptation;   Temptation ;   Trinity (2);   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Antichrist;   Hunger;   Luke, the Gospel of;   Papyrus;   Temptation of Christ;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
那 些 日 子 没 有 吃 甚 麽 ; 日 子 满 了 , 他 就 饿 了 。

Contextual Overview

1 Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. The Spirit led Jesus into the desert 2 where the devil tempted Jesus for forty days. Jesus ate nothing during that time, and when those days were ended, he was very hungry. 3 The devil said to Jesus, "If you are the Son of God, tell this rock to become bread." 4 Jesus answered, "It is written in the Scriptures: ‘A person does not live on bread alone.'" 5 Then the devil took Jesus and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant. 6 The devil said to Jesus, "I will give you all these kingdoms and all their power and glory. It has all been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. 7 If you worship me, then it will all be yours." 8 Jesus answered, "It is written in the Scriptures: ‘You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'" 9 Then the devil led Jesus to Jerusalem and put him on a high place of the Temple. He said to Jesus, "If you are the Son of God, jump down. 10 It is written in the Scriptures: ‘He has put his angels in charge of you to watch over you.' Psalm 91:11

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forty: Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:9, Deuteronomy 9:18, Deuteronomy 9:25, 1 Kings 19:8, Matthew 4:2

tempted: Genesis 3:15, 1 Samuel 17:16, Hebrews 2:18

he did: Esther 4:16, Jonah 3:7

he afterward: Matthew 21:18, John 4:6, Hebrews 4:15

Reciprocal: Isaiah 30:14 - so that Mark 11:12 - he was James 4:7 - Resist

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."
Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .
Genesis 9:20
Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 37:13
Israel said to Joseph, "Go to Shechem where your brothers are grazing the flocks." Joseph answered, "I will go."
Genesis 47:3
The king said to the brothers, "What work do you do?" And they said to him, "We, your servants, are shepherds, just as our ancestors were."
Exodus 3:1
One day Moses was taking care of Jethro's flock. (Jethro was the priest of Midian and also Moses' father-in-law.) When Moses led the flock to the west side of the desert, he came to Sinai, the mountain of God.
Psalms 127:3
Children are a gift from the Lord ; babies are a reward.
Amos 7:15
But the Lord took me away from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
Luke 11:51
from the killing of Abel to the killing of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I tell you that you who are alive now will be punished for them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Being forty days tempted of the devil,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read the phrase, "forty days", in connection with the latter part of the preceding verse; according to which the sense is, that Jesus was led by the Spirit forty days in the wilderness, before he was tempted by Satan, and in order to it: but our reading is confirmed by Mark 1:13 who affirms, as here, that he was so long tempted by Satan; as he might be invisibly, and, by internal suggestions, before he appeared visibly, and attacked him openly, with the following temptations. The Ethiopic version adds, "and forty nights": and such were these days in which Christ was in the wilderness, and fasted, and was tempted there: they, were such as included nights, as well as days; see Matthew 4:2

and in those days he did eat nothing not any sort of food whatever; he tasted of no kind of eatables or drinkables, during the whole space of forty days; nor in the nights neither, in which the Jews allowed persons to eat in times of fasting; Matthew 4:2- :. And this entire abstinence, as it shows the power of Christ in the supporting of his human nature, without food, for such a time, and the disadvantages under which, as man, combated with Satan; so, that this fast was never designed as an example to his followers, and to be imitated by them:

and when they were ended; the forty days, and forty nights:

he afterward hungered; which he did not before; and which shows the truth of his human nature; and is mentioned to observe the occasion of the following temptation, and the advantage on the tempter's side.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1-11.

Luke 4:2

Being forty days tempted - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which are recorded by Matthew and Luke did not take place until the forty days were finished. See Matthew 4:2-3.

He did eat nothing - He was sustained by the power of God during this season of extraordinary fasting.

Luke 4:13

Departed for a season - For a time. From this it appears that our Saviour was “afterward” subjected to temptations by Satan, but no “particular” temptations are recorded after this. From John 14:30, it seems that the devil tried or tempted him in the agony in Gethsemane. Compare the notes at Hebrews 12:4. It is more than probable, also, that Satan did much to excite the Pharisees and Sadducees to endeavor to “entangle him,” and the priests and rulers to oppose him; yet out of all his temptations God delivered him; and so he will make a way to escape for “all” that are tempted, and will not suffer them to be tempted above that which they are able to bear, 1 Corinthians 10:13.

Luke 4:14

In the power of the Spirit - By the “influence” or direction of the Spirit.

A fame - A report. See Matthew 4:24.


 
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