"Whenever you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unrecognizable in order that they may be seen fasting by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

Then the disciples of John approached him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"

And Jesus said to them, "{The bridegroom's attendants} are not able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But days are coming when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

But they were saying, "Not during the feast, so that there will not be an uproar among the people."

Now on the first [day] of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

Now at each feast, the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd--the one whom they wanted.

And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, "{Why} do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

And Jesus said to them, "The {bridegroom's attendants} are not able to fast while the bridegroom is with them, [are they]? As long a time [as] they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to fast.

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

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands {ritually}, [thus] holding fast to the traditions of the elders.

And [when they come] from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other [traditions] which they have received [and] hold fast to--[for example,] the washing of cups and pitchers and bronze kettles and dining couches.)

Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men."

Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, [after] arresting him by stealth, they could kill [him].

For they said, "Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people."

And on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go [and] prepare, so that you can eat the Passover?"

Now at each feast he customarily released for them one prisoner whom they requested.

because of the merciful compassion of our God by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high,

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.

And when he was twelve years [old], they went up according to the custom of the feast.

And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and make prayers--likewise also the [disciples] of the Pharisees--but yours are eating and drinking!"

So he said to them, "You are not able to make the {bridegroom's attendants} fast as long as the bridegroom is with them, [are you]?

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

But the [seed] on the good soil--these are the ones who, [after] hearing the word, hold fast to [it] with a noble and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.

And you, [be] like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that [when he] comes back and knocks, they can open [the door] for him immediately.

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest [someone] more distinguished than you has been invited by him,

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

Now the feast of Unleavened Bread (which is called Passover) was drawing near.

And the day of the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which it was necessary [for] the Passover lamb to be sacrificed.

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name [because they] saw his signs which he was doing.

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, [because they] had seen all [the things] he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come 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 near.)

Now the feast of the Jews--the [feast of] Tabernacles--was near.

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

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

So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"

{Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

Now on the last day of the feast--the great [day]--Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,

Then the feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another [while] standing in the temple [courts], "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, [when they] heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.

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

For some were thinking because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, "Purchase {what we need} for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.)

And [while] he was holding fast to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's, utterly astonished.

And on the second [visit] Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

"But when {he was forty years old}, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

And [when he] saw that it was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. ({Now this was during the feast} of Unleavened Bread.)

And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come then,[let us] return [and] visit the brothers in every town in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, [to see] how they are [doing]."

And [because] considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul strongly recommended,

But falling into a place of crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground. And the bow stuck fast [and] stayed immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence.

So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Now I praise you that you remember me [in] all [things], and just as I handed over to you the traditions, you hold fast to [them].

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

but examine all [things]; hold fast to [what is] good.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions which you were taught, whether by [spoken] word or by letter from us.

Hold fast to the pattern of sound words which you heard from me, in the faith and love [that are] in Christ Jesus.

holding fast to the faithful message according to the teaching, in order that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to reprove those who speak against [it].

but Christ [was faithful] as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of [our] commitment steadfast until the end,

Therefore, [because we] have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

in order that through two unchangeable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge may have powerful encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before [us],

Let us hold fast to the confession of [our] hope without wavering, for the one who promised [is] faithful.

being harmed [as the] wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, [they are] stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures [when they] feast together with you,

'I know where you live, where the throne of Satan [is]. And you hold fast to my name and did not deny your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

So likewise you also have those who hold fast to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come.

I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.