Matthew 4:2 meaning and explanation
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Matthew 4:2, Berean Standard Bible
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Matthew has just shown the Spirit driving Jesus into the wilderness to be tested, and this verse records the cost of that obedience. Forty days and nights of fasting place Jesus in the pattern of Moses on Sinai and Elijah at Horeb, and the plain statement that he was hungry keeps the scene genuinely human rather than heroic.
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