"Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'

Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'

But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."

Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,

His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

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

Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

"When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"

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

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near.

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

He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.

When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think -- that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"

On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."

but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;