Numeral adjective tesserakonta (forty) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)

Matthew

4: 2He fasted forty (tesserakonta) days and forty (tesserakonta) nights, and afterwards he was famished.

Mark

1: 13He was in the wilderness forty (tesserakonta) days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him. Proclaiming and manifesting the kingdom of God as the renewal of Israel, over against the Jerusalem priestly rulers; Jesus' opening proclamation of the kingdom of God

Luke

4: 2where for forty (tesserakonta) days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.

John

2: 20The Jews then said, "This temple has been under construction for forty (tesserakonta)-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

Acts

1: 3After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty (tesserakonta) days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
4: 22For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty (tesserakonta) years old.
7: 30"Now when forty (tesserakonta) years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.
7: 36He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty (tesserakonta) years.
7: 42But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices forty (tesserakonta) years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
13: 21Then they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty (tesserakonta) years.
23: 13There were more than forty (tesserakonta) who joined in this conspiracy.
23: 21But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty (tesserakonta) of their men are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. They are ready now and are waiting for your consent."