Fasting: During Forty Days: Jesus

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Matthew 4:1,2
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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Mark 1:12,13
And immediately the spirit drives him into the wilderness.
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Luke 4:1,2
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
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Whether Christ's Temptation Should have Taken Place after his Fast ...
... shouldst give thyself up, not to luxury, but to fasting; for this ... He was in the desert
forty days and forty nights," and that He fasted during that time ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christs temptation should have.htm

The Author's views Respecting the Celebration of Easter, Baptism ...
... the seventh week before Easter, and fasting three five ... yet call that time The forty
days' fast.' It ... had children by their lawful wives, during their episcopate ...
/.../chapter xxii the authors views respecting.htm

Whether the Defects Occurring During the Celebration of this ...
... precept of receiving the sacrament while fasting, as stated ... altar and let the priest
do penance for forty days. ... up the drop, and do penance during three days ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the defects occurring during.htm

John Chapter iv. 18-Jan
... of the world, which is perfect fasting: "That, denying ... 5. The Lord Jesus Himself
showed this also far ... on earth with His disciples during forty days after His ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate xvii john chapter iv.htm

The Temptation of Jesus
... During the whole forty days of Christ's ... As fasting occupies but a very subordinate,
we might almost say a tolerated, place in the teaching of Jesus; and ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter i the temptation of.htm

On Feast Days and Fast Days.
... for both Moses and Elijah fasted forty days, and Daniel ... David says: "My knees are
weak through fasting, and my ... the day of the resurrection, or during the time ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iii on feast days and.htm

The Temptation of Christ
... an ordinary way, to imitate them, by fasting for so ... During these forty days, we may
suppose, our Lord felt ... our blessed Lord all the whole forty days, when he ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the temptation of christ.htm

Acts i. 1, 2
... they had heard, and had passed forty days with Him ... immediately, but three days
intervened, during which he ... more elevated now, by being prepared through fasting. ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily i acts i 1.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... custom of abstaining from flesh and wine during such times as were set apart for
fasting and abstinence ... fasts in our Church are, the forty days of Lent ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 27 upon our lords.htm

Preface to the Benedictine Edition.
... was silent (as he himself says) during this season ... moreover of the true reason for
fasting; of contempt ... before the end of the Homily, "Forty days have passed ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/preface to the benedictine edition.htm

Subtopics

Fasting

Fasting by Paul, at the Time of his Conversion

Fasting for the Chastening of the Soul

Fasting for the Humbling of the Soul

Fasting in Babylon, With Prayer for Divine Deliverance and Guidance

Fasting in his Zeal for Zion

Fasting in Prayer for Himself and his Adversaries

Fasting in Times of Bereavement of Abner's Death

Fasting in Times of Bereavement of David, at the Time of Saul's Death

Fasting in Times of Bereavement of the People of Jabesh-Gilead, for Saul and his Sons

Fasting of Ahab, when Elijah Prophesied the Destruction of Himself and his House