12And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
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Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. …
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Being 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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)Here is, I. Christ’s cursing the fruitless fig-tree. He had a convenient resting-place at Bethany, and therefore thither he went at resting-time; but his work lay at Jerusalem, and thither therefore he returned in the morning, at working-time; and so intent was he upon his work, that he went out from Bethany without breakfast, which, before he was gone far, he found the want of, and was hungry (Ma…
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