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Mark 2:18
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples fast not?
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Luke 18:12
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
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Library

The Christian Sabbath --Peter's Confession of Faith.
... they were more ready to accept the gospel than the wise and wicked Pharisees had
been. ... and have nothing to eat, and I will not send them away fasting lest they ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxvi the christian sabbathpeters.htm

Levi-Matthew
... the Lord's messengers were falsified by these wicked men ... might be some foundation
for the charges of the Pharisees. ... Fasting was practiced by the Jews as an act ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 28 levi-matthew.htm

The Pharisee and Publican
... extempore prayer: for there are many Pharisees that pray ... extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, and as wicked in our ... not here condemned for his fasting, for fasting ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the pharisee and publican.htm

Knox -- the First Temptation of Christ
... After this, his fasting and complaint, he was sent by ... who took such vengeance upon
the wicked and obstinate ... that the priests, scribes and Pharisees had taken ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume i/knox the first temptation.htm

Matt. Ix. 9
... he had left off or forsaken this wicked trade, but ... to deck themselves with great
honor for fasting, and let ... none of these things shamed the Pharisees, but they ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xxx matt ix 9.htm

Chapter xxiv.
... instance, it is said of the Pharisees, "What they ... speak of those very three things,
almsgiving, prayer, fasting. ... when they are done in wicked deception, they ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/chapter xxiv.htm

The Jews Make all Ready for the War; and Simon, the Son of Gioras ...
... Josephus's account is that of the Pharisees, and St. ... be guilty of all kinds of wicked
practices." Observe ... days' abode at Jerusalem, for fasting and preparation ...
/.../chapter 22 the jews make.htm

History and Doctrines of Heresies.
... the resurrection of the dead; and the Pharisees, who ascribe ... and made him the minister
of his wicked design ... and was baptized, and continued in fasting and prayer ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec ii history and doctrines of.htm

The Kingdom of God: Its Values
... The disciples of the Pharisees and of John were surprised ... Fasting was alien to the
spirit which ruled in his ... bare his holy arm to punish the wicked, to sift ...
/.../rauschenbusch/the social principles of jesus/chapter iv the kingdom of.htm

How to Read the Bible
... a fasting of the soul, which is the soul of fasting. ... it as a weapon against the truth,
as the Pharisees did of ... It would be most wicked of us to say, "We will ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 25 1879/how to read the bible.htm