8 Bible Verses about Asceticism, People Practicing

This John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and he had a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts, and "honey of the wood."

"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, 'He has a demon';

"For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"

Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of John and the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"

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?"

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