"But there is coming a day when the Bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then at that time they will fast."

Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

"Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them?

"And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

"'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.