Selah · Bible verse

Matthew 4:2

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
Matthew 4:2 · World English Bible

In context

1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

2When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

3The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

4But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

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