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

"When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness 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 in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

For about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

where 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 sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.

The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

He also measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits by a man's measure, which is also an angel's.

And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:

But leave out the court outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given over to the nations; and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

And the beast was given a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.

And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.

being tempted for forty days by the devil. In those days he ate nothing, and when they had ended, he was hungry.

To these he also presented himself alive after his suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.