And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.

being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

“And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.

And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy.

But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, men who have bound themselves by an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you.”

From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.

Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:

But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.

And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.

The Lamb and the 144,000

Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.

Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.