While the day was coming on, Sha'ul begged them all to take some food, saying, *This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.*
Yeshua summoned his talmidim and said, *I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.*
When they had been long without food, Sha'ul stood up in the middle of them, and said, *Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.