"Through the heart of mercy of our God, Whereby the Dayspring from on high shall visit us,

Now his parents were accustomed to go up to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.

And when he was twelve years old they went up, as was customary, at the time of the feast

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?

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

"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.

"When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

Jesus answered. "A certain man was making a great feast to which he invited many guests.

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

"Now he had to release to them at the feast one prisoner."