He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God.

for the man on whom this wonder of healing had been done was more than forty years old.

When he was forty years old, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the descendants of Israel.

When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

It was he who brought them out of Egypt, and did wonders and signs there, and at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the desert.

So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert?

Then after he had taken care of them for forty years in the desert,

Then they demanded a king and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin.

There were more than forty of them involved in this plot,

But do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, and they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, and are only waiting to get your promise."