'Forty' in the Bible

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

But He replied, “You give them something to eat!” And they asked Him, “Shall we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led about by the Spirit in the Desert for forty days,

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

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii (200 days’ wages) worth of bread is not enough for each one to receive even a little.”

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.

Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.'

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.