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I would say that he naturally felt hunger. To ask if he "wanted" or "desired" to eat sounds like you are loading the question.
I'm also not sure of Raymond's take that internal "urges" are prerequisite to genuine temptation.
What I'm concerned about is saying something like this: "Jesus never really had any urges that mortal people have, so the test was rigged from the start."
As far as fasting, if He really wanted to eat a fig on a normal day, it would seem to stand to reason He wanted to eat even more when His body was crying out for nutrients.
Mark 7:24 From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted (ηθελεν) i.e. was desiring no one to know it, but He could not be hidden.
He was physically weakened, and his body was demanding food. Yet he responded only by quoting appropriate scripture to each challenge, placing his will over the demands of his flesh.
I would say that he naturally felt hunger. To ask if he "wanted" or "desired" to eat sounds like you are loading the question.
So did he want to eat?
Think of it this way....Let us say you are on a fast and become hungry. You abstain from eating because you know it would be a sin if you ate. The evil desire to eat is overcome by the good desire to continue to fast. Did Jesus have these 2 conflicting desires?
The desire to eat is natural, not sinful. A desire to break a vow is sinful. One can, during fasting, have the natural desire to eat without also harboring a desire to break the vow.