Bible Verses About Fasting: Afflictions of the Church

Then they said vnto him, Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often, and pray, and the disciples of the Pharises also, but thine eate and drinke?

And he said vnto them, Can ye make the children of the wedding chamber to fast, as long as the bridegrome is with them?

But the dayes will come, euen when the bridegrome shalbe taken away from them: then shall they fast in those dayes.