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Simplified Cowboy Version

Matthew 4:2

Jesus was famished after not eating for forty days and nights.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fasting;   Forty;   Hunger;   Jesus Continued;   Satan;   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fasting;   Hunger;   Moses;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ, Character of;   Fasting;   Human Nature of Christ, the;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Miracle;   Tempt;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Jesus christ;   Miracles;   Satan;   Temptation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Adam, the Second;   Demon;   Fast, Fasting;   Image of God;   Lord's Prayer, the;   Persecution;   Temptation, Test;   Watchfulness;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fast;   Humiliation of Christ;   Satan;   Temptation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Incarnation;   Lent;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Incarnation;   Jesus Christ;   Law;   Mss;   Satan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Antichrist ;   Asceticism (2);   Attributes of Christ;   Body (2);   Claims (of Christ);   Dependence;   Devotion;   Endurance;   Fasting (2);   Humanity of Christ;   Hunger;   Imagination;   Judaea;   Kenosis;   Logia;   Manliness;   Manuscripts;   Mission;   Night (2);   Numbers (2);   Popularity;   Popularity ;   Pride (2);   Redemption (2);   Self-Control;   Selfishness;   Silence;   Stone;   Struggles of Soul;   Temptation;   Temptation ;   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Kingdom of christ of heaven;   Kingdom of god;   Kingdom of heaven;   Levi;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Forty;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Fasting;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adam in the Old Testament;   Antichrist;   Four;   Hunger;   Kingdom of God (of Heaven), the;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Number;   Temptation of Christ;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;   Forty, the Number;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for April 20;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
King James Version (1611)
And when hee had fasted forty dayes and forty nights, hee was afterward an hungred.
King James Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
English Standard Version
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
New American Standard Bible
And after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
New Century Version
Jesus fasted for forty days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.
Amplified Bible
After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nights, he was afterward hungrie.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
Legacy Standard Bible
And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
Berean Standard Bible
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Contemporary English Version
After Jesus had gone without eating for forty days and nights, he was very hungry.
Complete Jewish Bible
After Yeshua had fasted forty days and nights, he was hungry.
Darby Translation
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus ate nothing for 40 days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.
George Lamsa Translation
So he fasted forty days and forty nights; but at last he was hungry.
Good News Translation
After spending forty days and nights without food, Jesus was hungry.
Lexham English Bible
and after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.
Literal Translation
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He hungered.
American Standard Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
Bible in Basic English
And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
Hebrew Names Version
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
International Standard Version
After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he finally became hungry.
Etheridge Translation
And he fasted forty days and forty nights; but afterward he hungered.
Murdock Translation
And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he hungered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, he was afterwarde an hungred.
English Revised Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
World English Bible
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry.
Weymouth's New Testament
There He fasted for forty days and nights; and after that He suffered from hunger.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he hadde fastid fourti daies and fourti nyytis, aftirward he hungride.
Update Bible Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward was hungry.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.
New English Translation
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
New King James Version
And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
New Living Translation
For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
New Life Bible
Jesus went without food for forty days and forty nights. After that He was hungry.
New Revised Standard
He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, fasting forty days and forty nights, - afterwards, he hungered.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
Revised Standard Version
And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes he was afterward an hungred.
Young's Literal Translation
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes, he was afterward an hungred.
Mace New Testament (1729)
there having fasted forty days and forty nights, he at length grew hungry.

Contextual Overview

1God led Jesus out into the dry country to be tempted by the devil. 2Jesus was famished after not eating for forty days and nights. 3That old devil rode up and said, "If you're God's Boy, you can easily turn these rocks into bread. What're you waitin' on?" 4Jesus said, "Man don't live on just bread, but on every word that comes out of God's mouth." 5The devil snatched Jesus up and took him to the holy city and they stood at the highest point of the church. 6"If you're God's Boy," the devil said, "bail off of here. 'Cause it's written that, 'God's angels are gonna look out for you. They won't let a scratch of harm come to you.'" 7Jesus answered and said, "It's also said, 'Don't be a fool and try to test God.'" 8The devil whisked him off again and took him to a tall mountain where they could see all of the territories. 9"I'll make a horse trade with you. I'll swap you everything you see below us if you'll take off your hat and call me boss." 10Jesus told him, "Get away from me, Satan! It's written that we are to 'Only bow down and call God the boss; him and him only.'"

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

Luke 11:51
Yep, this generation will certainly pay the fiddler.
John 8:44
No, the reason you don't understand me is because your real father is the devil. He wants to kill me and so do y'all. He was a murderer in the beginning, and his bastard children act just like him. He has always despised the truth because he couldn't handle it. He lies because it's who he is. He is the father of lies.
1 John 3:10
This is the truth about those who ride for God and those who ride for the Devil. Those who do not do what is right or love others do not ride for God.
1 John 3:12
Don't be like Cain, who rode for the devil and killed his own brother, Abel. Why did Cain kill his own brother? Because Cain did wrong things and Abel did right things.
1 John 3:15
Haters don't have life in them. They are murderers and murderers don't live forever.

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.


 
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