Luke 4:2 Meaning and Explanation
“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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Read Full Chapter →For forty days Jesus fasts in the wilderness under the devil's temptation, and at the end of them he is hungry.
What Does Luke 4:2 Mean?
The forty days recall Israel's forty years in the desert and the forty-day fasts of Moses and Elijah. Luke notes that the tempting ran through the whole period; the three exchanges he records come at its close, when Jesus stood at the far edge of human endurance.
He afterward hungered. The hunger was real, the weakness real, the temptation real. Hebrews 4:15 says he was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin. He does not meet the tempter rested and well fed but emptied and aching at the end of long fasting, so that no one worn thin by trial can say the Lord does not know this ground from the inside.
Luke 4:2 in the Original Language
peirazo (πειράζω), 'tempted' -- to test, to put to the proof.
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What does Luke 4:2 mean?
For forty days Jesus fasts in the wilderness under the devil's temptation, and at the end of them he is hungry.