Fasting (#1037)
As taught by Bruce Mahone 20220305. All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Mark 9:14-29 This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting (vs. 29)
“and fasting” not found in oldest Greek manuscripts
Matthew 17:14-21 This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (21)
Entire verse 21 not found in oldest Greek manuscripts
Isa. 58:3-12 The fast I have chosen – to loose the bands of wickedness…
Background:
Judges 20:26 All the people went up and fasted that day until even
I Samuel 7:6 They gathered together and fasted on that day
I Samuel 31:13 They buried the bones and fasted seven days
II Samuel 1:12 They mourned, wept, and fasted for Saul and Jonathan (cf. I Chron 10:12)
II Samuel 12:16, 21, 23 David fasted,Thou didst fast, weep for the child; wherefore should I fast?
I Kings 21:9,12 Proclaim a fast; they proclaimed a fast
II Chronicles 20:3 Jehospaphat feared…and proclaimed a fast
Ezra 8:21,23 Then I proclaimed a fast there, that we might afflict ourselves before God
So we fasted
Nehemiah 1:4 I sat down and wept and fasted
Nehemiah 9:1 Israel assembled with fasting
Ester 4:3 There was great mourning among the Jews and fasting and weeping
Ester 4:16 Fast for me: I and my maidens will fast likewise
Psalms 53:13 I humbled my soul with fasting
Psalms 69:10 I wept and chastened my soul with fasting
Psalms 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting
Jeremiah 36:6 The fasting day
Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry
Jeremiah 36:9 They proclaimed a fast before the Lord
Daniel 6:18 The king passed the night fasting
Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly
Joel 2:12 Turn to me with all your heart and with fasting…weeping…mourning
Joel 2:15 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly
Jonah 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast
Zechariah c 7:5 When ye fasted…those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me?
Zechariah 8:19 The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth…
Matthew 4:2 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered
Matthew 6:16,18 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance
Matthew 9:14,15 Why do the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not
(cf. Mark 2:18-20; Luke 5:33-35)
Matthew 15:32 I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way
Mark 8:3 If I send them away fasting, they will faint by the way
Luke 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all I possess
Acts 10:30 Four days ago I was fasting
Oldest texts have praying instead of fasting
Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said…
When they had fasted and prayed…
Act 14:23 They ordained elders and prayed with fasting
Acts 27:9 The fast was now already past
Acts 27:33 This is the fourteenth day that ye have…continued fasting
I Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not the other…give yourselves to fasting and prayer
Fasting not in earliest Greek texts
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