NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCES
ON FASTING

 

Matt. 4:2 - By our Lord for forty days.
Matt. 6:16-18 - Not to be practiced as the hypocrites do.
Matt. 9:14,15 - By John's disciples and the Pharisees.
Matt. 9:15 - By the guests when the bridegroom has departed.
Matt. 11:18 - The abstemious character of John the Baptist.
Matt. 15:32 - State of the four thousand before our Lord fed them.
Matt. 17:21 - This kind can only come forth by it.
Mark 2:18 - By John's disciples and the Pharisees.
Mark 2:19,20 - By the guests when the bridegroom has departed.
Mark 8:3 - State of the four thousand when our Lord fed them.
Mark 9:29 - This kind can only come forth by it.
Luke 2:37 - By Anna worshipping in the temple.
Luke 4:2 - By our Lord for forty days.
Luke 5:33 - By John's disciples and the Pharisees.
Luke 5:34,35 - By the guests when the bride groom has departed.
Luke 7:33 - The abstemious character of John the Baptist.
Luke 18:12 - By the boastful Pharisee, twice a week.
Acts 9:9 - Saul of Tarsus after his encounter with Christ.
Acts 10:30 - By Cornelius when a angel appeared to him.
Acts 13:2,2 - By prophets and teachers in Antioch.
Acts 14:23 - At the appointment of elders in the churches.
Acts 23:12-21 - By Jews under an oath to kill Paul.
Acts 27:9 - Allusion to the annual day of Atonement.
Acts 27:21,33 - By those with Paul before the shipwreck.
Rom. 14:21 - Abstaining for the sake of a weaker brother.
I Cor. 7:5 - In the marriage relationship.
I Cor. 8:13 - Abstaining for the sake of a weaker brother.
II Cor. 6:5 - An ingredient of the apostolic ministry.
II Cor. 11:27 - In the list of Paul's sufferings.
I Tim. 4:3 - False teachers commanding abstinence.

 

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