forty. See App-10. Compare Exodus 34:28; Numbers 14:34; 1 Kings 19:8. Read, as in Revised Version, "forty days, being", &c.
tempted. troubled and tried.
of. by. Greek. hupo. App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luke 4:14; Luke 4:26.
the devil. Here named because these three temptations came before the three recorded in Matthew 4. There it is ho peirazon. "he who was tempting Him". See App-116. in. Greek. en, App-104.
nothing. not (Greek. ou. App-105) anything.