Hoe lang vastte Jezus? Hoeveel dagen vastte Jezus? 40, de enige vastenperiode die de evangeliën vermelden

Jesus fasted for forty days, alone in the wilderness after his baptism, and it is the only fast of his that the Gospels record. Luke says that “in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered” (Luke 4:2). None of the Gospels says whether he drank water. Matthew, Mark and Luke all tell of the forty days, and John’s Gospel does not. Matthew counts them as “forty days and forty nights”, the same words…