Study of Matthew 4:2. Can you help out with any relevant scriptures or comments ?

Question

Matthew 4:2.... After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Exodus 34:28.....Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Deuteronomy 9:9.... When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

1 King 19:8....So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Mark 1:13.....and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.

Luke 4:2.....where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

The forty days & nights appear to have a recurring theme in the bible.

Did not in the story of Noah's Ark it rain for 40 days & nights ?

What is the importance of 40 days & nights ?

The scriptures from the OT quoted are they prophetic ?

Why did Jesus need to go hungry ?

Have i miss any important points ?

Can you add more scriptures ?

Do you have any relevant Comments?

Answer 1

This is why the Bible owns.  

Answer 2

Yes it rained 40 days & 40 nights in Noah's Ark. Jesus didn't have to go hungry, but it shows me how when we are in need, God is our provider and He'll get us through these times. The devil tempted Jesus into making bread from stone. He could've but God doesn't abuse His powers. And the other questions, I don't know ahah.

Answer 3

5 weeks and 5 days....

You need to be familiar with the 7 day cycle, creation, evolution and involution to understand what can be accomplished in 40 days and 40 nights...

Answer 4

Here's another interesting connection--Jesus was crucified on Passover--at the same time the lambs were being sacrificed!  Out of all the Days of the year Jesus could have been killed, it was the day the the lambs of Passover were slaughtered for the sins of the Jews.

As far as 40 goes--there is a deep connection, but it is beyond my understanding.  However, there is a man by the name of Scott Hahn who has done a lot of research into the numbers of the Bible and symbols and that sort of thing.  He's written a few books--maybe you could find some of those and get some real good info!

Answer 5

Numbers are too petty to go into for a miracle or a mystery.

It really doesn't matter how many because God is One and majority does not hold with the One God.

Why do they play over and under lucky seven and why is eight the lucky number for the Chinese people?

The outcome is what really matters and the numbers merely attract the idle and the seeker after mysteries when you wont see a mystery and you wont understand a mystery and you cannot explain a mystery.

The Bible is just a Roman Hoax in any case.

Worship none but Allah!

There is no God but Allah!

Allahuakbarr!

Answer 6

I think you found the interesting point on this - that only Moses, Elijah and Jesus fasted for 40 days in the Bible. Both Elijah and Moses did so on Mt. Sinai/Horeb, it does not say where Jesus was.

Later, Moses and Elijah would appear with Christ on the mount of transfiguration (an unidentified mountain, but some think maybe Horeb/Sinai).

I think the importance is less on the number 40, and more that only Moses (a man who represented Law), Elijah (a man who represented prophets), and Christ had a direct link to each other. Hence when Jesus said in Matthew 5 "I've come not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them" he had a direct connection and later in Matthew 17 an approval from them

Answer 7

40 days without food is the limit of human endurance. However, about a week is the limit without water. There was divine intervention when Moses was on the mountain. However, when Jesus was in the wilderness, the Bible does not say HE was without water!

More can be said.

GOD bless

Answer 8

Act 1:3  To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Speaking of the 40 days Jesus spent on Earth between his resurrection and ascension.

Answer 9

Certain numbers appear to have special significance to Father God (like 7, 12, 40, etc) - seven is His signature. Who of us can ever know why this is - at least this side of heaven?

Jesus fasted as a tribute to the wandering in the wilderness of the freed Hebrews - it was a re-enactment or fulfillment of OT scripture if you will as jesus frees us Christians from the slavery to sin.

Answer 10

YAHOSHUA fasted for 40 days to establish His victory over appetite, which was a major problem for the first humans.  I think it is probable that in some of the other 40 day fasts  that the Almighty intervened in a significant way.