fasted fourty days] As Moses and Elias had done before, Exodus 34:28. 1 Kings 19. 8. The first, before the law, the second, under the law, the third here, in the beginning of the gospel. and fourty nights] He did not eat at night, as the Jews did; or at some other times, when they fasted many days, as Daniel 10:3. but fasted day and night, during the time expressed. afterward] It seems he felt no hunger till the time expired, but was kept from it by Gods power, as the three Jews from feeling the heat of the fire, Daniel 3:27. an hungred] The devil takes him at the weakest, and takes occasion of his first temptation from hence, v. 3. which had been to no purpose before Christ was hungry.