Matthew 3:1

The Ministry of John the Baptist

3:1 In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness ¹  of Judea proclaiming,

Matthew 4:2

4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. ² 

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¹ tn Or “desert.”

² tn Grk “and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.”