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John Gill
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 he bore his testimony for the Lord of hosts, 1 Kings 19:8 so did Christ, when he was about to publish the Gospel of his grace, and bear witness to the truth. "Forty nights" as well as days, are mentioned; partly to show that these were whole entire...
Matthew Henry
John Baptist said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease; and so it proved. For, after John had baptized Christ, and borne his testimony to him, we hear little more of his ministry; he had done what he came to do, and thenceforward there is as much talk of Jesus as ever there had been of John. As the rising Sun advances, the morning star disappears. Concerning Jesus Christ we...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. I suppose that he was not “an hungered” during his long fast, and this renders it a fast altogether by itself. We are here told, “He was afterward an hungered.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, See how Satan seizes opportunities. When he finds us weak, as the Saviour was through long fasting; — when he finds us in trying circumstances, as the Saviour was when hungry in the desert; — then it is that he comes to tempt us. This dastardly foe of ours takes every possible...