What Is Lent in the Bible?
Feast
The forty days before Easter, to prepare with prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Today
It begins on Ash Wednesday. The color is violet.
Where it appears in the Bible
Matthew 4:2
What the Bible says
Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catechism 1438; Matthew 4:2