Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
KJV
καὶ νηστεύσας ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νύκτας, ὕστερον ἐπείνασεν.
Greek NT
Et cum jejunasset quadraginta diebus, et quadraginta noctibus, postea esuriit.
Vulgate
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
ASV
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νηστεύω
nesteuo
verb · 20×
νύξ
nux
noun · 61×
πεινάω
peinao
verb · 23×
τεσσαράκοντα
tessarakonta
adjective · 22×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὕστερον
usteron
adverb · 11×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 3 earlier texts.
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1Kgs 19:8 · echo"And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God."Elijah: forty days and nights — Jesus fasts forty days in the wilderness
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Exod 34:28 · echo"And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."Exodus: Moses fasted forty days — Jesus fasts forty days
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Deut 9:9 · echo"When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:"Deuteronomy: Moses on the mountain forty days — Jesus' wilderness fast
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§394Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.
§2849Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.159 In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "cu…
2. Having then found Him in the wilderness, and in a pathless wilderness (for that the wilderness was such, Mark has declared, saying, that He was with the wild beasts Mark 1:13), behold with how much craft he draws near, and wickedness; and for what sort of opportunity he watches. For not in his fast, but in his hunger he approaches Him; to instruct you how great a good fastin…
We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. But observe that energy and capacity for energy, and the product of energy, and the agent of energy, are all…
Leo affirms that it is one and the same Person who acts in both natures. The same Christ who as a child grows in wisdom also as God feeds five thousand. The same one who sleeps in the boat commands the storm to cease. The unity of Person means that what belongs to either nature can be predicated of the one Christ.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 19:8 — And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- 1Kgs 19:8 — And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- Acts 1:3 — To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
- Acts 10:10 — And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
- Deut 9:9 — When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat
- Deut 9:9 — When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat
- Deut 9:18 — And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the
- Deut 9:25 — Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
- Deut 18:18 — I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
- Exod 24:18 — And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
- Exod 34:28 — And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Gen 7:12 — And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Heb 2:14 — Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil
- John 4:6 — Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
- John 4:6 — Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
- Luke 4:2 — Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- Luke 4:2 — Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- Mark 8:2 — I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
- Mark 11:12 — And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
- Mark 11:12 — And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
- Matt 21:18 — Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
- Ps 95:6 — O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
- Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.