forty. See App-10. Compare Exo_34:28. Num_14:34. 1Ki_19:8. Read, as in Revised Version, "forty days, being", &c.
tempted = troubled and tried.
of = by. Greek. hupo.App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luk_4:14, Luk_4:26.
the devil. Here named because these three temptations came before the three recorded in Mat 4. There it is ho peirazon= "he who was tempting Him". See App-116. in. Greek. en,App-104.