Last Updated on January 11, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
In the following video it says:
When Jesus began his work, he was about 30 years old.
He was tempted in the desert for 40 days
In all this time, he ate nothing.
People who have voluntarily stopped eating to participate in hunger strikes have died after 45–61 days:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-long-can-you-go-without-food
https://www.bmj.com/content/315/7112/829.full
Is this not a very radical challenge, not to eat for 40 days? Is it not the same as to go at the outermost boarder of what humans can do? And after he mastered this, he started teaching.