Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing : and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
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Gill's Exposition
Being forty days tempted of the devil,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read the phrase, "forty days", in connection with the latter part of the preceding verse; according…
On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Mat 4:1-11. Luk 4:2 Being forty days tempted - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which are…
The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam, bespeak him to be the seed of the woman; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent's head,…
Cambridge Bible
forty days The number was connected in the Jewish mind with notions of seclusion, and revelation, and peril; Moses on Sinai, Exo 34:18; Elijah, 1Ki 19:8; the wanderings of the Israelites, Num 14:34;…
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