and we sailed, after the days of the unleavened food, from Philippi, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.

for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

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

and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days.

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

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

And he said unto his disciples, 'Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold it;

'And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

And till the day was about to be, Paul was calling upon all to partake of nourishment, saying, 'Fourteen days to-day, waiting, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing,