The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Now those who have fasted for prolonged periods of time will tell you that after five days that strong appetite leaves, and you really don't get that hungry. Now I can tell you after three days you're vanished. You start having visions of hot fudge sundaes and strawberry shortcake. But they tell me, if you can get to the fifth day that the hunger begins to leave, and that you will not get hungry again until you begin to starve to death. And they do say that a person, by taking water, can exist as much as forty days or so without eating. But once you get hungry after a prolonged period, it is important that you eat, and of course, you have to eat, breaking your fast very slowly. In other words, if you sit down to a big dinner after fasting for forty days, it will kill you. Your body wouldn't be able to handle it. So if you've been fasting for say fourteen days, you should take at least fourteen days in breaking the fast. Beginning with just half glass of juice, and half water mixed together, and break it slowly, introducing foods and nutrients to your body again, because if you introduce too much, too fast, it can actually destroy you, it can kill you. Your body just can't handle it. And a lot of people have died because they were foolish in breaking a fast. They just go out and eat a big dinner.So Jesus had been fasting, going without food for forty days. And now He was hungry. Which means that He was beginning to starve to death.