He was famished

The Gospel for this Sunday is the story of the temptation of Jesus:
"After Jesus was baptized, he was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished." (Matthew 4:1)

When I think of fasting forty days, I think of being weak and spaced-out. Hardly fit for a struggle with the devil. But that was when Jesus fought against the temptations of the devil -- when he was famished.

I made this sketch using this photo of a memorial to the Irish Famine of the 1840's.