What Happened While Jesus Fasted?
by Eric Anderson
After Jesus was baptized he went into the wilderness and fasted for 40 days. This was the kind of fasting where he ate no food at all the whole time. He only drank water. If a human body has water, it can live for weeks on its fat reserves, but eventually these also run out and starvation hunger begins. This happened to Jesus as he fasted for forty days, and while he was fasting, the devil came to tempt him. Each test was like the temptations that we face—and that Eve faced—but each temptation was made much worse. Something very significant happened while Jesus was fasting. But to understand why it is so significant, we need to go back to something that happened with Adam and Eve.
