And until day was about to come on, Paul begged all to receive a share of food, saying, Today is the fourteenth day you continued waiting in abstinence, not having taken anything.
Go, gather all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast for me. And do not eat or drink three days, night or day. My maidens and I will also fast in this way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I have perished, I have perished.
But having called His disciples near, Jesus said, I am filled with pity on the crowd, because they already have remained with Me three days and have nothing they may eat. And I do not desire to send them away fasting, that they may not faint in the way.
And there being much abstinence, then standing up in their midst, Paul said, Truly, O men, obeying me you ought not to have set sail from Crete, and to spare yourselves and this hardship and loss.