and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

A Question About Fasting

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”

And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.”

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’