American Standard Version
Luke 4:2
2during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.
Luke 4:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- New International Version (NIV)where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
- English Standard Version (ESV)for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
- New King James Version (NKJV)being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.
Context of Luke 4:2
1And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered. 3And the devil said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread. 4And Jesus answered unto him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone.
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ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα πειραζόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου. καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν οὐδὲν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, καὶ συντελεσθεισῶν αὐτῶν ἐπείνασεν.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Luke 4:2
- Exodus 24:18And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
- Exodus 34:28And he was there with Jehovah 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.
- Deuteronomy 9:9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
- 1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
- Genesis 3:15and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- 1 Samuel 17:16And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
- Hebrews 2:18For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
- Esther 4:16Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
- Jonah 3:7And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
- Matthew 21:18Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered.
- John 4:6and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- Hebrews 4:15For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Commentaries on Luke 4:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-14Verses 1-14 On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1-11. Luke 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 recorded by Matthew and Luke did not take place until the forty days were finished. See Matthew 4:2-3. He did eat nothing - He was sustained by the power of God during this season of extraordinary fasting. Luke 4:13 Departed for a season…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2tempted by the devil: The term diabolos ("devil") is a Greek translation of the Hebrew satan, meaning “accuser” or “adversary” (1 Chronicles 21:1; Job 1:1–2:13; Zechariah 3:1–2). Luke uses both terms ("devil," Luke 4:3, 6, 13; 8:12; "Satan," 10:18; 11:18; 13:16; 22:3, 31). Satan tempted Adam and Eve and failed. Jesus is called the second Adam because he is a new beginning for humanity. He resisted temptation, unlike Adam and Eve. Because of this, he…Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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