Luke 4:2

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“where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.”

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BSBPD

“where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 4:2 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
  2. Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  3. Exodus 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.
  4. Deuteronomy 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.
  5. Deuteronomy 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.
  6. Deuteronomy 9:25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
  7. 1 Samuel 17:16For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.
  8. 1 Kings 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.
  9. Esther 4:16“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
  10. Jonah 3:7Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
  11. Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
  12. Matthew 21:18In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.
  13. John 4:6Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
  14. Hebrews 2:18Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
  15. Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

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