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So you go to Yahweh's House on a day of fasting and read publicly all that you wrote as I dictated. Read it to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns. (Jeremiah 36, 6)
I turned to the Lord and begged him. I pleaded with prayers and fasting. I did penance, I put on sackcloth and sat on an ash pile. (Daniel 9, 3)
Yahweh says, "Yet even now, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping and mourning. (Joel 2, 12)
When you fast, do not put on a miserable face as do the hypocrites. They put on a gloomy face, so people can see they are fasting. I tell you this: they have been paid in full already. (Matthew 6, 16)
because you are not fasting for appearances or for people, but for your Father who sees beyond appearances. And your Father, who sees what is kept secret will reward you. (Matthew 6, 18)
For John came fasting and people said: 'He is possessed.' (Matthew 11, 18)
Jesus called his disciples and said to them, "I am filled with compassion for these people; they have already followed me for three days and now have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away fasting, or they may faint on the way." (Matthew 15, 32)
(Only prayer and fasting can drive out this kind of spirit.") (Matthew 17, 21)
One day, when the disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees were fasting, some people asked Jesus, "Why is it that both the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but yours do not?" (Mark 2, 18)
There was also a prophetess named Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. After leaving her father's home, she had been seven years with her husband, and since then she had been continually about the Temple, serving God as a widow night and day in fasting and prayer. (Luke 2, 36)
On one occasion while they were celebrating the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul and send them to do the work for which I have called them." (Acts 13, 2)
So, after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them and sent them off. (Acts 13, 3)
