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Summary

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

Bible References

Forty

Exodus 24:18
Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 34:28
So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

He did

Esther 4:16
"Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don't eat and don't drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!"
Jonah 3:7
He issued a proclamation and said, "In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.

He afterward

Matthew 21:18
Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
John 4:6
Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

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