And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

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

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

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

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.

But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.”

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.

where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.

And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.