Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 4:2

"during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered." — Luke 4:2 (ASV)

Being forty days tempted of the devil.

Six weeks of temptation. We read the story of the temptation, perhaps, in six minutes; but it lasted for nearly six weeks: Forty days tempted of the devil.

And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

It does not appear, therefore, that Jesus hungered while he was fasting. He was miraculously sustained during that period. After fasting, one looks for deeper spiritual feeling, and more holy joy; but the most prominent fact here is that he afterward hungered—think not that you have lost the benefit of your devout exercises when you do not at once feel it. Perhaps the very best thing that can happen to you, after much prayer, is a holy hunger; I do not mean a natural hunger, as it was with our Lord, but a blessed hungering after divine things. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.