But other days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, in those days they will fast."

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'

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

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.