{Had fasted} (
(8873)teusas).  No perfunctory ceremonial fast,
but of communion with the Father in complete abstention from food
as in the case of Moses during forty days and forty nights ( Ex
34:28 ). "The period of the fast, as in the case of Moses was
spent in a spiritual ecstasy, during which the wants of the
natural body were suspended" (Alford). "He afterward hungered"
and so at the close of the period of forty days.