NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 2

Matthew 4:2

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Matthew 4:2 in context

Matthew 4:1–5

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”

Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

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