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He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. <a href="/nlt/luke/4.htm">New Living Translation</a> where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry. <a href="/esv/luke/4.htm">English Standard Version</a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. <a href="/bsb/luke/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry. <a href="/blb/luke/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> being tempted forty days by the devil. And He ate nothing in those days, and they having ended, He was hungry. <a href="/kjv/luke/4.htm">King James Bible</a> Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. <a href="/nkjv/luke/4.htm">New King James Version</a> being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. <a href="/nasb_/luke/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry. <a href="/nasb/luke/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry. <a href="/nasb77/luke/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days; and when they had ended, He became hungry. <a href="/lsb/luke/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had finished, He was hungry. <a href="/amp/luke/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they ended, He was hungry. <a href="/csb/luke/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> for forty days to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, he was hungry. <a href="/hcsb/luke/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> for 40 days to be tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, He was hungry. <a href="/asv/luke/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered. <a href="/cev/luke/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> For 40 days Jesus was tested by the devil, and during that time he went without eating. When it was all over, he was hungry. <a href="/erv/luke/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered. <a href="/gwt/luke/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> where he was tempted by the devil for 40 days. During those days Jesus ate nothing, so when they were over, he was hungry. <a href="/gnt/luke/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> where he was tempted by the Devil for forty days. In all that time he ate nothing, so that he was hungry when it was over. <a href="/isv/luke/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> where he was being tempted by the devil for 40 days. During that time he ate nothing at all, and when they were over he became hungry. <a href="/msb/luke/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. <a href="/net/luke/4.htm">NET Bible</a> where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished. <a href="/nheb/luke/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. When they were completed, he was hungry. <a href="/wbt/luke/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Being forty days tempted by the devil. And in those days he ate nothing; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry. <a href="/wey/luke/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> tempted all the while by the Devil. During those days He ate nothing, and at the close of them He suffered from hunger. <a href="/web/luke/4.htm">World English Bible</a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/luke/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> being tempted by the Devil forty days, and He did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, He afterward hungered, <a href="/blb/luke/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> being tempted forty days by the devil. And He ate nothing in those days, and they having ended, He was hungry. <a href="/ylt/luke/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered, <a href="/slt/luke/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/luke/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For the space of forty days; and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry. <a href="/cpdv/luke/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> for forty days, and he was tested by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were completed, he was hungry. <a href="/nabre/luke/4.htm">New American Bible</a> for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over he was hungry. <a href="/nrsvce/luke/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/luke/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Forty days, in order that he might be tempted by the adversary. And he did not eat anything in those days; and when they were over, at last he became hungry. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/luke/4.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> To be tempted by The Devil for forty days, and he ate nothing in those days, and when he had finished them, at the end he was hungry.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/luke/4.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> and was there forty days, to be tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry. <a href="/godbey/luke/4.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> And He ate nothing during those days; and they having been completed, He afterward hungered. <a href="/haweis/luke/4.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> being tempted forty days by the devil; and did eat nothing during those days: and when they were ended, afterwards he was hungry. <a href="/mace/luke/4.htm">Mace New Testament</a> being forty days tempted by the devil, without eating any thing all that while: but that time expired, he at last was seiz'd with hunger. <a href="/wey/luke/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> tempted all the while by the Devil. During those days He ate nothing, and at the close of them He suffered from hunger. <a href="/worrell/luke/4.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And He ate nothing in those days; and, when they were completed, He hungered. <a href="/worsley/luke/4.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> and He did eat nothing in all those days: and when they were ended, at last He was hungry. <a href="/parallel/luke/4-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3-5_0Jtd9Lc?start=1348" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/luke/4.htm">The Temptation of Jesus</a> 1Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2<a href="/greek/5062.htm" title="5062: tesserakonta (Adj-AFP) -- Forty. The decade of tessares; forty.">where for forty</a> <a href="/greek/2250.htm" title="2250: hēmeras (N-AFP) -- A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. ">days</a> <a href="/greek/3985.htm" title="3985: peirazomenos (V-PPM/P-NMS) -- To try, tempt, test. From peira; to test, i.e. Endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline.">He was tempted</a> <a href="/greek/5259.htm" title="5259: hypo (Prep) -- A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).">by</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tou (Art-GMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/1228.htm" title="1228: diabolou (Adj-GMS) -- From diaballo; a traducer; specially, Satan.">devil.</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: Kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. "></a> <a href="/greek/5315.htm" title="5315: ephagen (V-AIA-3S) -- A primary verb; to eat.">He ate</a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ouk (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not."></a> <a href="/greek/3762.htm" title="3762: ouden (Adj-ANS) -- No one, none, nothing. ">nothing</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">during</a> <a href="/greek/1565.htm" title="1565: ekeinais (DPro-DFP) -- That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.">those</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tais (Art-DFP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2250.htm" title="2250: hēmerais (N-DFP) -- A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. ">days,</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autōn (PPro-GF3P) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">when they</a> <a href="/greek/4931.htm" title="4931: syntelestheisōn (V-APP-GFP) -- To bring to an end, fulfill, accomplish. From sun and teleo; to complete entirely; generally, to execute.">had ended,</a> <a href="/greek/3983.htm" title="3983: epeinasen (V-AIA-3S) -- To be hungry, needy, desire earnestly. From the same as penes; to famish; figuratively, to crave.">He was hungry.</a> 3The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/matthew/4-1.htm">Matthew 4:1-11</a> Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. / After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. / The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” ... <a href="/mark/1-12.htm">Mark 1:12-13</a> At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness, / and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him. <a href="/hebrews/4-15.htm">Hebrews 4:15</a> For 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. <a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">1 John 2:16</a> For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. <a href="/genesis/3-1.htm">Genesis 3:1-6</a> Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” / The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, / but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’” ... <a href="/exodus/34-28.htm">Exodus 34:28</a> So 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. <a href="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2-3</a> Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. / He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. <a href="/deuteronomy/9-9.htm">Deuteronomy 9:9</a> When 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. <a href="/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8</a> So 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. <a href="/isaiah/58-6.htm">Isaiah 58:6</a> Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? <a href="/romans/5-12.htm">Romans 5:12-19</a> Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. / For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. / Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come. ... <a href="/2_corinthians/11-3.htm">2 Corinthians 11:3</a> I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ. <a href="/philippians/2-8.htm">Philippians 2:8</a> And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross. <a href="/james/1-13.htm">James 1:13-15</a> When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone. / But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. / Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. <a href="/1_peter/5-8.htm">1 Peter 5:8</a> Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungry.forty.<a href="/exodus/24-18.htm">Exodus 24:18</a> And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.<a href="/exodus/34-28.htm">Exodus 34:28</a> And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.<a href="/deuteronomy/9-9.htm">Deuteronomy 9:9,18,25</a> When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: … tempted.<a href="/genesis/3-15.htm">Genesis 3:15</a> And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.<a href="/1_samuel/17-16.htm">1 Samuel 17:16</a> And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.<a href="/hebrews/2-18.htm">Hebrews 2:18</a> For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.he did.<a href="/esther/4-16.htm">Esther 4:16</a> Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.<a href="/jonah/3-7.htm">Jonah 3:7</a> And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:he afterward.<a href="/matthew/21-18.htm">Matthew 21:18</a> Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.<a href="/john/4-6.htm">John 4:6</a> Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.<a href="/hebrews/4-15.htm">Hebrews 4:15</a> For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/mark/16-14.htm">Afterward</a> <a href="/mark/8-8.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/luke/2-43.htm">Completed</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/mark/7-30.htm">Devil</a> <a href="/mark/14-22.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/luke/2-43.htm">End</a> <a href="/luke/1-23.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/luke/3-20.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/luke/2-43.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/luke/3-12.htm">Food</a> <a href="/mark/1-13.htm">Forty</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Full</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/mark/11-12.htm">Hungered</a> <a href="/luke/1-53.htm">Hungry</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Jordan</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Led</a> <a href="/mark/14-63.htm">Need</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/mark/1-13.htm">Tempted</a> <a href="/mark/10-2.htm">Tested</a> <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/luke/7-11.htm">Afterward</a> <a href="/luke/4-3.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/luke/4-13.htm">Completed</a> <a href="/luke/4-42.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/luke/4-3.htm">Devil</a> <a href="/luke/5-30.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/luke/4-34.htm">End</a> <a href="/luke/4-13.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/luke/4-3.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/luke/4-13.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/luke/5-30.htm">Food</a> <a href="/john/2-20.htm">Forty</a> <a href="/luke/5-9.htm">Full</a> <a href="/luke/4-34.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/luke/6-3.htm">Hungered</a> <a href="/luke/6-3.htm">Hungry</a> <a href="/luke/4-4.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/john/1-28.htm">Jordan</a> <a href="/luke/4-6.htm">Led</a> <a href="/luke/4-4.htm">Need</a> <a href="/luke/4-14.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/luke/4-3.htm">Tempted</a> <a href="/luke/10-25.htm">Tested</a> <a href="/luke/5-16.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Luke 4</div>1. <a href="/luke/4-1.htm">The fasting and temptation of Jesus.</a> 14. <a href="/luke/4-14.htm">He begins to preach.</a> 16. <a href="/luke/4-16.htm">The people of Nazareth marvel at words, but seek to kill him.</a> 33. <a href="/luke/4-33.htm">He cures one possessed of a demon,</a> 38. <a href="/luke/4-38.htm">Peter's mother-in-law,</a> 40. <a href="/luke/4-40.htm">and various other sick persons.</a> 41. <a href="/luke/4-41.htm">The demons acknowledge Jesus, and are reproved for it.</a> 42. <a href="/luke/4-42.htm">He preaches through the cities of Galilee.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/luke/4.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/luke/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/luke/4.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. The number forty is significant in biblical history, often associated with periods of testing, trial, and preparation. For example, the Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years (<a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33-34</a>), and Moses spent forty days on Mount Sinai (<a href="/exodus/24-18.htm">Exodus 24:18</a>). This period of temptation in the wilderness serves as a parallel to Israel's own testing and failure, highlighting Jesus as the true and faithful Israelite. The wilderness itself is a place of desolation and danger, symbolizing spiritual barrenness and the need for reliance on God. The devil, or Satan, is depicted as the adversary, whose role is to challenge and attempt to derail God's redemptive plan. This encounter emphasizes Jesus' role as the second Adam, who succeeds where the first Adam failed (<a href="/romans/5-12.htm">Romans 5:12-19</a>).He ate nothing during those days, Fasting is a spiritual discipline seen throughout Scripture, often associated with seeking God's guidance, repentance, or preparation for a significant task. Jesus' fasting for forty days mirrors Moses' fast on Mount Sinai (<a href="/exodus/34-28.htm">Exodus 34:28</a>) and Elijah's journey to Horeb (<a href="/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8</a>), both of which were times of divine encounter and revelation. This act of fasting underscores Jesus' dependence on the Father and His commitment to His mission. It also highlights His humanity, as He experiences physical hunger and weakness, yet remains spiritually strong.and when they had ended, He was hungry. This statement affirms the true humanity of Jesus, who experienced physical needs and limitations. His hunger after the fast emphasizes the reality of His incarnation, as He fully participates in the human condition (<a href="/philippians/2-7.htm">Philippians 2:7-8</a>). This moment of vulnerability sets the stage for the devil's temptations, which aim to exploit Jesus' physical weakness. However, it also demonstrates Jesus' perfect obedience and reliance on God's provision, contrasting with Israel's complaints and lack of faith during their wilderness journey (<a href="/exodus/16-2.htm">Exodus 16:2-3</a>). Jesus' victory over temptation foreshadows His ultimate triumph over sin and death, affirming His identity as the Son of God and the Savior of humanity.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jesus.htm">Jesus</a> The central figure in this passage, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. His experience here is a testament to His humanity and divinity. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_devil.htm">The Devil</a> The tempter who challenges Jesus during His time in the wilderness. The devil's role is to test Jesus' obedience and faithfulness to God. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a> A desolate place where Jesus spends forty days fasting and praying. It symbolizes a place of testing and spiritual preparation. 4. <a href="/topical/f/forty_days.htm">Forty Days</a> A significant period in biblical terms, often associated with testing, trial, and preparation (e.g., the Israelites' 40 years in the desert). 5. <a href="/topical/f/fasting.htm">Fasting</a> Jesus abstains from food during this time, highlighting His reliance on God and setting an example of spiritual discipline.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_temptation.htm">The Reality of Temptation</a> Temptation is a universal experience, even for Jesus. Recognizing its reality helps us prepare to face it with God's strength. <a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_fasting_and_prayer.htm">The Power of Fasting and Prayer</a> Fasting and prayer are powerful spiritual disciplines that draw us closer to God and prepare us to face challenges. <a href="/topical/s/scripture_as_a_defense.htm">Scripture as a Defense</a> Jesus' use of Scripture to counter the devil's temptations teaches us the importance of knowing and applying God's Word in our lives. <a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god.htm">Dependence on God</a> Jesus' reliance on God during His fast exemplifies the need for us to depend on God for strength and sustenance in all circumstances. <a href="/topical/v/victory_over_temptation.htm">Victory Over Temptation</a> Jesus' victory over temptation assures us that, through Him, we too can overcome the trials and temptations we face.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/luke/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 2. - Being forty days tempted of the devil. For some reason unknown to us, the number forty seems to possess some mystic significance. Moses was forty days alone with the Divine Presence on Horeb. Elijah fasted forty days in the wilderness before the vision and the voice came to him. Forty years was the period, too, of the wanderings of the chosen people. The existence of an evil power has been a favorite subject of discussion in those schools of thought who more or less question the authoritative teaching of the canonical books of the two Testaments. Keim, quoted by Godet, well and fairly sums up the present state of opinion of the more moderate and thoughtful schools of free-thought: "We regard the question of an existence of an evil power as altogether an open question for science." Those, however, who recognize the Gospel narratives as the faithful expression of Jesus Christ's teaching, must accept the repeated declarations of the Master that an evil being of superhuman power does exist, and has a great, though a limited, influence over the thoughts and works of men. Whatever men may feel with regard to the famous clause in the Lord's Prayer, which the Revisers of the Authorized Version render, "deliver us from the evil one," they must agree at least with the conclusion of the Revisers, that, in the Christian Church, a large majority of the ancients understood the Master's words in his great prayer as asking deliverance, not from "evil" in the abstract, as the English Authorized Version seems to prefer, but deliverance from the power of some mighty evil being. And in those days he did eat nothing. In this state of ecstasy, when the body was completely subordinate to the Spirit, the ordinary bodily wants seem to have been suspended. There is no difficulty in accepting this supposition, if the signification of the words, "in the Spirit," above suggested, be adopted. The whole transaction belongs to the miraculous. We, who receive as God's Word these Gospel narratives, find no difficulty in recognizing God's power to suspend, when he pleases, what men regard as fixed natural laws. We believe, too, that on certain occasions in the world's history it has pleased him to put this power into operation. He afterward hungered. Although still in the Spirit, in order to provide a field for the exercise of the peculiar typical temptation about to be dwelt upon, some of the bodily functions, which during the trance or the ecstasy had been temporarily suspended, were allowed again to play their usual part in the life, as in the ease Of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Paul, and John. <a href="/commentaries/luke/4-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>[where for] forty τεσσεράκοντα (tesserakonta) Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5062.htm">Strong's 5062: </a> Forty. The decade of tessares; forty. days ἡμέρας (hēmeras) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2250.htm">Strong's 2250: </a> A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. He was tempted πειραζόμενος (peirazomenos) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3985.htm">Strong's 3985: </a> To try, tempt, test. From peira; to test, i.e. Endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline. by ὑπὸ (hypo) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_5259.htm">Strong's 5259: </a> A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when). the τοῦ (tou) Article - Genitive Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. devil. διαβόλου (diabolou) Adjective - Genitive Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1228.htm">Strong's 1228: </a> From diaballo; a traducer; specially, Satan. He ate ἔφαγεν (ephagen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5315.htm">Strong's 5315: </a> A primary verb; to eat. nothing οὐδὲν (ouden) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3762.htm">Strong's 3762: </a> No one, none, nothing. during ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. those ἐκείναις (ekeinais) Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1565.htm">Strong's 1565: </a> That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed. days, ἡμέραις (hēmerais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2250.htm">Strong's 2250: </a> A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. [when] they αὐτῶν (autōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Feminine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. had ended, συντελεσθεισῶν (syntelestheisōn) Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Genitive Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4931.htm">Strong's 4931: </a> To bring to an end, fulfill, accomplish. From sun and teleo; to complete entirely; generally, to execute. He was hungry. ἐπείνασεν (epeinasen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3983.htm">Strong's 3983: </a> To be hungry, needy, desire earnestly. 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