And while the day was coming on, Paul pleaded with them all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that you have waited and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and let them fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, so that they do not faint on the way.
But after a long abstinence from food Paul stood up in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have incurred this harm and loss.