2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
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And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam , bespeak him to be the seed of the woman ; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent’s head , baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents. Thus, in the beginning of the war, he made reprisals upon him, and conquered the conq…
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