Matthew 4:2
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2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished.(A)
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Deuteronomy 9:18
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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)
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1 Kings 19:8
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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)
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Exodus 34:28
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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)
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- 34.28 Heb the ten words
Luke 4:2
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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)
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Deuteronomy 9:9
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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)
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Deuteronomy 9:25
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25 “Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,(A)
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Exodus 24:18
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18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.(A)
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John 4:6
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6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
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Mark 11:12
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Jesus Curses the Fig Tree
12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.
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Deuteronomy 18:18
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18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet,[a] who shall speak to them everything that I command.(A)
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- 18.18 Heb in his mouth
Hebrews 2:14-17
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14 Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,(A) 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death.(B) 16 For it is clear that he did not come to help angels but the descendants of Abraham. 17 Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people.(C)
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Matthew 21:18
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Jesus Curses the Fig Tree
18 In the morning, when he returned to the city, he was hungry.
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