But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days."

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 the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?

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

and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, but worshipped with fasting and prayer night and day.