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Luke 4:2 — King James Version← Study notes

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.


Luke 4:2Greek Interlinear

Greek · Luke 4:218 words
GreekMeaning
ἡμέραςhēmeras
daysnounG2250
τεσσεράκονταtesserakonta
fortyadjectiveG5062
πειραζόμενοςpeirazomenos
being temptedverbG3985
ὑπὸhypo
byprepositionG5259
τοῦtou
thearticleG3588
διαβόλουdiabolou
deviladjectiveG1228
καὶkai
AndwordG2532
οὐκouk
notadverbG3756
ἔφαγενephagen
devour, eat, liveverbG2068
οὐδὲνouden
no thingadjectiveG3762
ἐνen
inprepositionG1722
ταῖςtais
thearticleG3588
ἡμέραιςhēmerais
daysnounG2250
ἐκείναιςekeinais
thosedemonstrativeG1565
καὶkai
andwordG2532
συντελεσθεισῶνsyntelestheisōn
when were endingverbG4931
αὐτῶνautōn
theypronounG846
ἐπείνασενepeinasen
He was hungryverbG3983
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Luke 4:2

Christ is tempted after His baptism, showing us that after we are baptized, temptations await us. Hence it is said, But Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit it, &c.

Theophylact · 11th century

God said in times past, My Spirit shall not always abide in men, for that they are flesh. But now that we have been enriched with the gift of regeneration by water and the Spirit, we are become partakers of the Divine nature by participation of the Holy Spirit. But the first-born among many brethren first received the Spirit, who Himself also is the giver of the Spirit, that we through Him might also receive the grace of the Holy Spirit.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

When therefore you read that Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit, and it is written in the Acts concerning the Apostles, that they were filled with the Holy Spirit, you must not suppose that the Apostles were equal to the Savior. For as if you should say, These vessels are full of wine or oil, you would not thereby affirm them to be equally full, so Jesus and Paul were full of the Holy Spirit, but Paul’s vessel was far less than that of Jesus, and yet each was filled according…

Origen · 3rd century
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