for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

'And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;

and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,

this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;

and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,

and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

The Jews, therefore, said, 'Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,

thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves -- not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.'

from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

and he was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by the Adversary, and he was with the beasts, and the messengers were ministering to him.

And I heard the number of those sealed, (one hundred and forty four thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel):

and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;

And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,

And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads;

and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;

and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,