And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, affecting a gloomy look: for they disfigure their visages, that they may make a shew of fasting to men. Verily I say unto you, That they have their reward.

But when thou keepest a fast, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

Then came unto him disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees keep many fasts, but thy disciples fast not?

And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber weep, whilst the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast.

And vast multitudes were gathered together unto him, insomuch that he entered into a vessel to be seated; and all the multitude stood on the beach.

who, having discovered one of vast price, went away and sold all that he possessed, and bought it.

And a vast multitude spread their garments on the road, and others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed them on the road:

The kingdom of heaven is like to a certain king, who made a marriage-feast for his son:

Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who have been invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and the fatlings are killed, and all things are ready; come unto the marriage-feast.

So these servants going out into the roads, collected all, as many as they found, both bad and good; and the wedding feast was fully furnished with guests.

and he saith to him, Friend, how came thou in here, not having the garment provided for the marriage feast? And he was speechless.

But while they were gone away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they who were prepared went in with him to the marriage-feast: and the door was shut.

But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there be a tumult among the people.

Now at the feast, the governor had been accustomed to release one prisoner to the people, whomsoever they chose.

and laid it in his own new sepulchre, which he had hewn out in a rock: and rolling a vast stone against the door of the sepulchre, departed.

And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees kept fasts; and they came and said to him, Wherefore do the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees, fast? but thy disciples keep no fast.

And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

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

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the farther side of Jordan; and they around Tyre and Sidon, a vast multitude, when they heard what wonders he did, came unto him.

AND again he began to teach by the sea side: and a vast multitude was assembled about him, so that he went into a vessel to sit down on the sea, and all the multitude was on the land close by the sea.

but when it is sown, it groweth up and becomes greater than all herbaceous plants, and produceth vast branches; so that the birds of the air may roost under the shadow of it.

And when Jesus had passed over again in the vessel to the other side, a vast multitude came together unto him; and he was by the sea side.

And immediately the damsel arose and walked about, for she was twelve years old. And they were astonished with vast astonishment.

And Jesus, when he landed, saw a vast multitude, and was moved with companion towards them, for they were as sheep having no shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

David himself therefore calleth him Lord; and whence then is he his son? And a vast multitude heard him with delight.

AND as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said unto him, Master, behold what vast stones, and what structures!

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with vast power and glory.

NOW the passover and the feast of unleavened bread were but two days distant; and the chief priests, and the scribes, sought how they might seize him by craft, and kill him.

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be a commotion among the people.

And when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came, having an alabaster vase of ointment, of genuine spikenard, of vast value: and breaking the vase, she let it flow down upon his head.

Now at the feast, he released one prisoner to them, whomsoever they petitioned for.

And his parents went annually to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

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

Now the discourse concerning him more and more spread through the country: and vast multitudes came together to hear him, and to be cured by him of their disorders.

And he said unto them, Can you make the children of the bridechamber fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them?

But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then shall they fast in those days.

And coming down with them, he stood on a level spot: and the crowd of his disciples, and a vast multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

And it came to pass the next day, that he went into a city called Nain; and a considerable number of his disciples went with him, and a vast multitude.

Now when a vast multitude was collected, even those who came to him out of every city, he spake by a parable.

and in hell, lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham at a vast distance, and Lazarus in his bosom.

And besides all these considerations, between us and you there is a vast chasm fixed: so that they who might be willing to pass from hence to you, cannot; neither can they pass through to us, from thence.

I keep a fast twice a week, I pay the tenth of all things I possess.

AND the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was at hand.

(Now he held it necessary to release one to them at the feast.)

And they, after paying him their adorations, returned to Jerusalem with vast joy:

Now while he was at Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed on his name, when they beheld the miracles which he did.

When therefore he was come into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all the things which he did at the feast: for they also had gone to the feast.

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

In these lay a vast multitude of infirm persons, blind, lame, withered, waiting the motion of the water.

And a vast multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles which he performed on those who were diseased.

And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

Then Jesus lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a vast concourse of people was come to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?

And a feast of the Jews was nigh, the feast of tabernacles.

Go ye up to this feast: for I am not yet going up to this feast, because my fixed time is not yet arrived.

But as soon as his disciples were gone up, then went he also himself up to the feast: not in public, but as in concealment.

The Jews then sought for him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

But now at the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and spake aloud, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Then was the feast of dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

Then they sought for Jesus, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?

On the morrow a great multitude who came to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Now there were certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast:

NOW before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come, that he should go out of this world to the Father, having loved his peculiar people that are in the world, he loved them to the end.

For some supposed, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy what we need for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, for each soldier a part; and his vest: now the vest was without a seam, woven from the upper parts throughout the whole.

They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, "They parted my garments among them, and for my vest they cast lots." So the soldiers therefore did these things.

But as the lame man that was cured held fast Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them into the portico called Solomon's, in vast amazement.

saying; The prison indeed found we fast locked with all security, and the guards standing without, before the door: but when we opened it, we found no person within.

And the word of God increased: and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplied greatly; and a vast body of the priests were obedient to the faith.

But when he had completed his fortieth year, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

And he said unto them, Ye know how contrary it is to established usage, for a man who is a Jew to associate with or visit one of another nation; but God hath shewed me to call no man common or unclean.

I was in the city of Joppa praying and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel descending as a vast sheet let down from heaven by its four corners; and it came close to me:

And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a vast multitude believing, turned to the Lord.

and having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that during a whole year they were jointly employed in that church, and taught a vast multitude, and they called for the first time in Antioch the disciples Christians.

Now when Herod was going to bring him forth, the same night was Peter fast asleep between the two soldiers, fastened to them with two chains: and the guards before the door kept the prison.

And as they were employed in the ministry, and kept a fast, the Holy Ghost said, Set apart for me now both Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Then having kept a fast and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them out.

NOW it came to pass at Iconium, that they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spake in such a manner, as that a vast multitude both of the Jews and Greek proselytes believed.

Then after certain days said Paul to Barnabas, Let us now return and visit our brethren in every city among whom we have preached the word of the Lord, that we may see how they hold on.

who, receiving such an injunction, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

And some of them believed, and associated themselves with Paul and Silas; and of the religious Greeks a vast multitude, and of the wives of the first people not a few.

but took his leave of them, saying, I must by any means keep the approaching feast at Jerusalem: but I mean to return to you again, if God so please. So he sailed from Ephesus.

and ye see and hear how not only at Ephesus, but almost through all Asia, this fellow Paul, by his persuasions, hath perverted a vast multitude, affirming that they are not gods which are made with hands:

So when they began raising a vast clamour, and stripping off their garments, and casting dust into the air,

And much time being consumed, and sailing now becoming dangerous, because the fast was already past, Paul admonished them,

But falling on a shoal where two currents met, they ran the ship aground; and the forecastle stuck fast, and remained immoveable, but the stern was stove in by the violence of the waves.

by whom also we have had an introduction through faith into this grace in which we have stood fast, and are rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.

But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the injunctions as I delivered them unto you.

NOW I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I have preached unto you, and which ye have received, in which also ye have stood fast;

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, be manful, be strong.

Afterwards at the expiration of three years I went up unto Jerusalem to pay a visit to Peter, and I abode with him fifteen days.

STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.

Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

WHEREFORE, my brethren, beloved, and very dear to me, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, O beloved.

Let no man therefore judge you concerning what you eat, or what you drink, or the observance of a feast, or new moon, or the sabbaths;

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

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.