Bible Verses About Fasting: Afflictions of the Church

And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?

To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?

But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: then shall they fast in those days.