She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

And Simon answered and said, Master, we toiled all night, and took nothing: but at thy word I will let down the nets.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

At times a spirit seizes him and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him, and makes him foam at the mouth, and does not leave him till it has well-nigh covered him with bruises.

And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,