They said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive greater condemnation.”
I fast twice a week, and I tithe of all that I earn.’
The Lord said to him, “Rise and go to Straight Street, and inquire at Judas’ house for someone named Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying,
Then a dispute arose between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about ceremonial cleansing.
Again, the next day John was standing with two of his disciples.
He was praying in a certain place, and when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?
When you reach out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
And she was a widow of about eighty-four years of age who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fasting and prayer night and day.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
He said to them, “Can you make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?