Matthew 4:2

1 Kings 19:8; Deuteronomy 18:18; Deuteronomy 9:18; Deuteronomy 9:25; Deuteronomy 9:9; Exodus 24:18; Exodus 34:28; Hebrews 2:14-17; John 4:6; Luke 4:2; Mark 11:12; Matthew 21:18

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Had fasted - Abstained from food. Forty days and forty nights - It has been questioned by some whether Christ abstained wholly from food, or...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And when he had fasted (a) forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. (a) A full forty days.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Temptation ( Mark 1:12 f.*, Luke 4:1-13 *). Jesus'sudden recognition of His Sonship or Messiah-ship and of the responsibility thus laid upon...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

forty. The number of probation (App-10). nights. Joined thus with "days", are complete periods of twenty-four hours. See App-144.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when he had fasted forty days - It is remarkable that Moses, the...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And when he had fasted forty days— So much greater was Jesus than Adam. Jesus, worn down by fasting and hunger, oppressed with want, and in a wild...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights. Luke say...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Temptation 1-11. The temptation ( Mark 1:12 ; Luke 4:1 ). The narrative, which can only have come from our Lord's own lips, describes an actu...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fasted forty days ] It was God's will that before beginning His work Jesus should retire from the world and give Himself entirely to fasting and pra...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Forty days and forty nights. — Here we have an obvious parallelism with the fasts of Moses ( Exodus 34:28 ) and Elijah ( 1 Kings 19:8 ), and we may w...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 5 His Temptation - Matthew 4:1-11 MUCH has been written on the possibility of temptation in the experience of a sinless Being. The diff...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Tempted by the Devil Matthew 4:1-11 Then marks the close connection between the heavenly voice of the baptism and the fiery ordeal of the fo...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

"Then." After the heavens opened, hell is opened. The King must not only be in perfect harmony with the order and beauty of the heavens, He must face...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. It is remarkable in the Old Testament Scripture, of those that were...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE ATTACK ON DIVINE SONSHIP ‘And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to Him, h...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when he had fasted forty days ..... As Moses did, when he was about to deliver the law to the Israelites, Exodus 34:28 and as Elijah did, when...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. Ver. 2. And when he had fasted forty days, &c. ] All Christ'...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights As Moses, the giver, and Elias, the restorer of the law, had done before: he was afterward a hu...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

There could be no doubt therefore that He would fulfil this virtual pledge to bear their sins on Calvary. Notice too that the Father approves Him in...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Temptation of Christ. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderne...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He was in the wilderness, a place of solitude, and so fitter for Satan's purpose, and he was an hungred, which was another advantage Satan had. But...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus Faces Up To His Future In The Wilderness (4:1-11). The most momentous moment of His conscious life to date having taken place, Jesus will no...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.' Throughout His forty days and nights, (that is, for over a moon period)...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS—GENERAL REMARKS There is only one way of understanding the narrative , viz. as the history of a real occu...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 4:1-4 The record of our Lord's temptation, which is specially commended to our consideration in Lent, must needs be momentous, first, in i...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 4:1-11 I. One cannot help thinking and wondering why this temptation should take place, and though all the reasons cannot be known, some o...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 4:2-4 Observe: I. the depth of the intention of Satan's question. It opens at once a dilemma. Canst Thou be thus without bread, and yet b...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 4:1 . Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. What a change it seems from the descent of the...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 4:1 . Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. He had just been baptized, the Spirit of God ha...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 4:1 . Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit, υπο του πνευματος, the Holy Spirit, as indicated by the Greek article, and declared in the vers...
The Biblical Illustrator

Fasted. Temptation I. Satan has the worst designs under the most friendly appearances. II. When Satan tempts, he can appear to be invisible,...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 4:1-40 THE TEMPTATION . The Father's acceptance of the Lord's consecration of himself for the work of the kingdom do...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A severe test, even from the standpoint of Christ's physical nature: And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungere...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Temptation Matthew 4:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The temptation of Christ in the wilderness had no direct bearing upon our salvation, as we ar...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Temptation (No. 2) Matthew 4:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. "THEN" the word holds our attention. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Having fasted — Whereby doubtless he received more abundant spiritual strength from God. Forty days and forty nights — As did Moses, the giver of t...

² And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 4:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 4:2