Mark 1:13
Good News Translation
where he stayed forty days, being tempted by Satan. Wild animals were there also, but angels came and helped him.

New Revised Standard Version
He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.

Contemporary English Version
He stayed there for 40 days while Satan tested him. Jesus was with the wild animals, but angels took care of him.

New American Bible
and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to him.

forty.

Exodus 24:18 And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:11,18,25 And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, . . .

1 Kings 19:8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

tempted.

Hebrews 2:17,18 Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people. . . .

Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

and the.

1 Kings 19:5-7 And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat. . . .

Matthew 4:11 Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to him.

Matthew 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

1 Timothy 3:16 And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Context
The Temptation of Jesus
12And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert. 13And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to him. 14And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came in Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,…
Cross References
Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.

Matthew 4:11
Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to him.

Luke 4:1
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert,

Mark 1:12
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