She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon!'

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.'

Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,

by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, "Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?"

"Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me -- for me, indeed?

"The Lord who rules over all says, 'The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.'

So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast in the Lord's temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said, which you wrote in the scroll.