Matthew 4:2

4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. ¹ 

Luke 4:2

4:2 where for forty days he endured temptations ²  from the devil. He ³  ate nothing ⁴  during those days, and when they were completed, ⁵  he was famished.

[4:2]  ¹ tn Grk “and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.”

[4:2]  ² 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.

[4:2]  ³ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[4:2]  ⁴ 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.

[4:2]  ⁵ tn The Greek word here is συντελεσθείσων (suntelesqeiswn) from the verb συντελέω (suntelew).