And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?

And the court-yard that without the temple throw out, and thou mayest not measure it: for it was given to the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.

And a mouth was given him speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given him to make war forty-two months.

And I saw, and, behold, a Lamb standing upon mount Sion, and with him a hundred forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father written in their foreheads.

And they sing as a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders: and none could learn the song, except the hundred forty-four thousand, purchased from the earth.

And he measured her wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is the angel.

Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?