Luke 4:2

4:2 where for forty days he endured temptations ¹  from the devil. He ²  ate nothing ³  during those days, and when they were completed, ⁴  he was famished.

Luke 9:36

9:36 After ⁵  the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So ⁶  they kept silent and told no one ⁷  at that time ⁸  anything of what they had seen.

Luke 21:23

21:23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress ⁹  on the earth and wrath against this people.

¹ tn Grk “in the desert, for forty days being tempted.” The participle πειραζόμενος (peirazomeno") has been translated as an adverbial clause in English to avoid a run-on sentence with a second “and.” Here the present participle suggests a period of forty days of testing. Three samples of the end of the testing are given in the following verses.

² tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

³ sn The reference to Jesus eating nothing could well be an idiom meaning that he ate only what the desert provided; see Exod 34:28. A desert fast simply meant eating only what one could obtain in the desert. The parallel in Matt 4:2 speaks only of Jesus fasting.

⁴ tn The Greek word here is συντελεσθείσων (suntelesqeiswn) from the verb συντελέω (suntelew).

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding summary of the account.

⁷ sn Although the disciples told no one at the time, later they did recount this. The commentary on this scene is 2 Pet 1:17-18.

⁸ tn Grk “in those days.”

⁹ sn Great distress means that this is a period of great judgment.