The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

And after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he became hungry,

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.

And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

And I heard the number of those who were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel.

But the court which is outside the temple, omit, and do not measure that, for it has been given up to the Gentiles, and they shall tread under foot the Holy City for forty and two months.

And he was permitted to utter loud boasts and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty-two months.

And I looked, and lo, there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with were a hundred and forty and four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

They were singing a new song before the throne, and before the four Living Creatures and the Elders; and none can learn that song, except the one hundred and forty and four thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.

and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was among the wild beasts, but the angels were ministering to him.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, all the time tempted by the devil.

After his sufferings he had also shown himself alive to them in many convincing manifestations, revealing himself to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought was over forty years old.

"And when he was forty years old it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel;

"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him, in the desert of Mt. Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.

"This was he who brought them out, after he had shown signs and wonders in the wilderness, for forty years.

"So God turned from them, and gave them up to the worship of the heavenly host, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. "Did you offer unto me slain beasts as sacrifices during the forty years in the wilderness, O House of Israel?

"For about forty years he bore with them in the desert,

"Then they asked for a king, and he gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a Benjamite for forty years.

And there were more than forty who had sworn this oath.

"Now do not let them persuade, for more than forty men are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse, not to eat nor drink until they have killed him; even now they are all ready, awaiting your consent."