And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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Gill's Exposition
And when he had fasted forty days..... As Moses did, when he was about to deliver the law to the Israelites, Exo 34:28 and as Elijah did, when he bore his testimony for the Lord of hosts, Kg1 19:8 so…
Barnes' Notes
Had fasted - Abstained from food. Forty days and forty nights - It has been questioned by some whether Christ abstained wholly from food, or only from the food to which he was accustomed. Luke says…
We have here the story of a famous duel, fought hand to hand, between Michael and the dragon, the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, nay, the serpent himself; in which the seed of the…
Cambridge Bible
he was afterward a hungred The words imply that the temptation was not throughout the forty days, but at the end of the forty days.
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