1. Matthew 4:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about Jesus getting hungry?

Matthew 4:2 (ESV)

2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

In this way the Bible emphasizes that Jesus was truly human. As a human being, he is going to pay man’s debt. That is how righteous God is.

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