Luke 4:2-4 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungry.… 1. To authorize His doctrine, since He brought it out of the desert, where He had fasted so long a time in solitary retiredness, and not out of the schools and colleges, and that the rather because Moses and Elias, two notable restorers of religion under the law, had done the like. As His fasting could not but be of God, so neither His doctrine, which He thus fasting received. 2. To show the glory of His Godhead in the humiliation of His manhood. As in most of His humiliations, some sparkles of His divinity brake forth as before in His birth and in His baptism. 3. To show how little the belly should be regarded of us Christians in following the businesses of a better life. (Bishop Cowper.) Parallel Verses KJV: Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. |
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