Matthew 4:2 - Compare All Versions

Matthew 4:2 NIV (New International Version)

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2 NLT (New Living Translation)

For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.

Matthew 4:2 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)

After he had fasted forty days and forty nights,  he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2 KJV (King James Version)

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Matthew 4:2 NKJV (New King James Version)

And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

Matthew 4:1-3 MSG (The Message)

Next Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit for the Test. The Devil was ready to give it. Jesus prepared for the Test by fasting forty days and forty nights. That left him, of course, in a state of extreme hunger, which the Devil took advantage of in the first test: “Since you are God’s Son, speak the word that will turn these stones into loaves of bread.”

Matthew 4:2 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)

And after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.

Matthew 4:2 AMP (Amplified Bible)

After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry. [Ex 34:28; 1 Kin 19:8]

Matthew 4:2 NET (New English Translation)

After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.