To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:

For the man was more than forty years, upon whom this sign of healing was done.

And when the time of forty years was completed to him, it came up upon his heart to take a view of his brethren the sons of Israel.

And forty years completed, a messenger of the Lord was seen to him in the desert of mount Sina, in a flame of fire in a bramble.

He brought them out, having done wonders and sign in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the desert forty years.

And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel,

And about forty years time he bare them in the desert.

And thence they desired a king; and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.

And there were more than forty having made this conspiracy.

Therefore thou shouldest not be persuaded by them: for more than forty men of them lie in wait for him, who anathematized themselves, neither to eat or drink till they should kill him: and now are they prepared, expecting a promise from thee.