but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.'

And they said unto him, 'Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications -- in like manner also those of the Pharisees -- but thine do eat and drink?'

And he said unto them, 'Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.

and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,