Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 4:2

"And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered." — Matthew 4:2 (ASV)

Throughout the long fast, He was miraculously sustained, but at its end, hunger began to test Him. We are more in danger when our labor or suffering is over than during its continuance.

Now that the Lord is drained dry by His long fast and is made faint by hunger, the enemy will be upon Him. The devil is a great coward and takes a mean advantage of us.

Lord, make me a match for the enemy!

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.

I suppose that he was not "an hungered" during his long fast, and this renders it a fast altogether by itself. We are here told, "He was afterward an hungered."