Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

And leave out the exterior court of the temple and measure it not, for it has been given to the gentiles, and they shall tread the holy city under foot forty-two months [three years and a half].

And there was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy, and power was given him to continue forty-two months [three years and a half].

and [after he] had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.

Now it was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles [Note: This was also called "Festival of Shelters," and was one of three principal, annual Jewish festivals and commemorated the occasion of the Israelites living in tents or shelters during their forty year wandering in the desert].

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

where your fathers tested me and challenged me, and saw my works for forty years.

With whom was he displeased forty years? Was not it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

And he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and [when] they were completed, he was hungry.

And for a period of time [of] about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness.

And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, [for] forty years.

Now there were more [than] forty who had made this conspiracy,

You therefore do not be persuaded by them, because more [than] forty men of {their number} are lying in wait [for] him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him. And now they are ready, waiting for {you to agree}."

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty [lashes] less one.

[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.'

to whom he also presented himself alive after he suffered, with many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking the things about the kingdom of God.

For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more [than] forty years [old].

"But when {he was forty years old}, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

"And [when] forty years had been completed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness [for] forty years.

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me [for] forty years in the wilderness, [did you], house of Israel?

And immediately the Spirit leadeth him out into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days,

On returning from the Jordan, full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was led by the power of the Spirit through the Wilderness for forty days, tempted by the Devil.

'Four hundred and forty gallons of oil,' answered the man. 'Here is your agreement,' he said; 'sit down at once and make it two hundred and twenty.'

But He answered them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." Then they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

Philip answered Him, "Forty dollars' worth of bread is not enough to give them all even a scanty meal apiece."