The Temptation of Jesus
Luke 4:2
In 9 translations
- BSB
- where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
- KJV
- Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- WEB
- for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
- ASV
- during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.
- LSV
- being tempted by the Devil forty days, and He did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, He afterward hungered,
- YLT
- forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,
- DBY
- forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.
- DRC
- For the space of forty days; and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.
- GNV
- And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, and in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ὕστερον (“afterward”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Spelling of τεσσεράκοντα: Textus Receptus: τεσσαράκοντα.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: αὐτῶν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read αὐτῶν; Robinson–Pierpont add ὕστερον.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα πειραζόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου. καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν οὐδὲν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, καὶ συντελεσθεισῶν αὐτῶν ἐπείνασεν.
- RP2018
- ἡμέρας τεσσαράκοντα πειραζόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου. Καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν οὐδὲν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις· καὶ συντελεσθεισῶν αὐτῶν, ὕστερον ἐπείνασεν.
- TR-Boyd
- ἡμέρας τεσσαράκοντα πειραζόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου. Καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν οὐδὲν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις· καὶ συντελεσθεισῶν αὐτῶν, ὕστερον ἐπείνασε.
- SCR1894
- ημερας τεσσαρακοντα πειραζομενος υπο του διαβολου και ουκ εφαγεν ουδεν εν ταις ημεραις εκειναις και συντελεσθεισων αυτων υστερον επεινασεν
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
- Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
- 1 Kings 19:8So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Deuteronomy 9:9When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
- Hebrews 2:18Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
- Deuteronomy 9:18Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the…
- Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
- John 4:6Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- Matthew 21:18In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.
- 1 Samuel 17:16For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.
- Deuteronomy 9:25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
- Jonah 3:7Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
- Esther 4:16“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is…
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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