The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.

When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel.

But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.

And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.

And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:

For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.