Bible Verses About Fasting: Afflictions of the Church

Next they said to him, "Yochanan's talmidim are always fasting and davvening, and likewise the talmidim of the P'rushim; but yours go on eating and drinking."

Yeshua said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is still with them?

The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; and when that time comes, they will fast."