Luke 4:2 · KJV
“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
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
Luke 4 — Context
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
3And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
4And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Cross References
Exodus 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. {commandments: Heb. words}
Hebrews 4:15
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as {we are, yet} without sin.
Hebrews 2:18
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Deuteronomy 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 bread nor drink water:
1 Kings 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.
Deuteronomy 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 LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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.