for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry.So, how much of the Sunday School version of this story fits? It appears from this that Satan didn't just come at the end of the 40 days to tempt him; he was tempted by him throughout the time. I wonder how much time went by between the three temptations we know about?
Also, I wonder how Jesus survived this time, if he never ate anything during those 40 days? Modern science says that a person can go roughly 3 weeks without food before dying of hunger; Jesus did twice that. So was there some kind of "cheat" where Jesus did eat something and it's not conveyed through the text, or was there some sort of supernatural intervention involved?
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