² where for forty days he was tested by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over he was famished.^(A)

⁸ He got up and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.^(A)

²⁸ He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.^[a](A)

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested^[a] as we are, yet without sin.^(A)

¹⁸ Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.^(A)

⁹ When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.^(A)

⁶ Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

¹⁸ Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.^(A)

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

¹⁸ In the morning, when he returned to the city, he was hungry.

² He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished.^(A)