“Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.”
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 of testing echo Israel's forty years, Moses's forty days, and Elijah's forty-day journey. He ate nothing during those days communicates genuine physical privation — the testing occurs in the context of real hunger, real physical weakness. At the end of them he was hungry: the understatement is characteristic of Luke — forty days without food produces genuine, extreme hunger.
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