Passages

Old Testament

• Judges
  • Judges 20:26 | English Standard Version
• Nehemiah
  • Nehemiah 8–10 | Commentary on the Old Testament
• 2 Samuel
  • Fasting for Bereavement – 2 Samuel 12:21 | The New Manners and Customs of the Bible
• Isaiah
  • True Fasting is Love in Action – Isaiah 58:1–14 | The Bible Guide
• Zechariah
  • Fast and Feast – Nehemiah 8–10 | Commentary on the Old Testament
  • The Question of Fasting – Page 204 | Exploring the Old Testament
  • Zechariah 7–8 | Commentary on the Old Testament
  • Motives Behind Fasting – Zechariah 7:1–14 | The Bible Guide

New Testament

• Matthew
  • Fasting – Matthew 6:16–18 | The New Manners and Customs of the Bible
  • To Fast or Feast? – Matthew 8:1–9:34 | The Bible Guide
  • Giving, Praying and Fasting – Matthew 5:1–7:29 | The Bible Guide
• Luke
  • Semi-weekly Fasts – Luke 18:12 | The New Manners and Customs of the Bible

Book Chapters

• The Four Great Fasts – Page 338 | The Temple: Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ
• Other Fasts – Page 340 | The Temple: Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ
• Fasting – Page 69 | The Training of the Twelve; or, Passages out of the Gospels, Exhibiting the Twelve Disciples of Jesus under Discipline for the Apostleship
• The Word of God on a Fasting Day – Page 296 | The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 4: The Age of the Reformation
• Prayer and Fasting – Page 66 | The Didache: A Window on the Earliest Christians
• Fasting & Praying – Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) 8 | The Apostolic Fathers in English
• * The Question About Fasting – Page 439 | A Marginal Jew, Rethinking the Historical Jesus: Volume Two, Mentor, Message, and Miracles
• Fasting & Backsliding – Page 295 | Only a Prayer Meeting: Forty Addresses at Metropolitan Tabernacle and Other Prayer-Meetings
• The Fasting of Christ – Page 134 | Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Epiphany, Lent and Easter Sermons
• Anyone for Fasting? Well, Yes – Page 66 | Fresh Ideas for Discipleship & Nurture
• Of Fasting – Page 307 | The History of the Puritans; or, Protestant Nonconformists (Volume 5)
• Fasting – Page 307 | The History of the Puritans; or, Protestant Nonconformists (Volume 5)
• Concerning the Public Solemn Fasting – Page 307 | The History of the Puritans; or, Protestant Nonconformists (Volume 5)
• THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THIS LIFE COMPREHENDED IN THREE PARTS,—FASTING, ALMSGIVING, AND PRAYER – Augustine, Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness 8.18 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.5: Saint Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings
• Fasting – Page 98 | Notes and Questions on the Catholic Faith and Religion, the Notes and Answers Compiled Chiefly from the Works and in the Words of Dr. Pusey
• THE FASTS OF THE JEWS ARE NOT TRUE FASTS, NOR ACCEPTABLE TO GOD – Epistle of Barnabas 3 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
• FASTING, AND THE GOAT SENT AWAY, WERE TYPES OF CHRIST – Epistle of Barnabas 7 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
• IN WHAT THE TRUE FASTING CONSISTS – Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 15 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
• FRAGMENTS FROM THE LOST WRITINGS OF IRENÆUS – Page 568 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
• Make your fasting a reality by amendment in your lives – Leo, Sermon 42.6 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.12: Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
• Let Us profit by fasting and good works at this sacred season of the year – Leo, Sermon 68.4 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.12: Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
• The First Conference of Abbot Theonas Chapter XXXV – Conferences 3.21.35 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.11: Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lérins, John Cassian
• Baptism Must be Preceded by Fasting – The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 7, 34 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 8: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages
• Of the Seasons for Fasting – Page 613 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 8: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages
• WHICH DAYS OF THE WEEK WE ARE TO FAST, AND WHICH NOT, AND FOR WHAT REASONS – Constitutiones Apostolorum 7.23 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 7: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies
• CONCERNING FASTING AND PRAYER (THE LORD’S PRAYER – Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) 8.1 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 7: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies
• ON FASTING IN OPPOSITION TO THE PSYCHICS – Tertullian, On Fasting in Opposition to the Psychics | Ante-Nicene Fathers 4: Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second
• The use and purpose of fasting, private and public: principles to be guarded in it, 14–18 – Institutes of the Christian Religion IV, xii, 14 | Institutes of the Christian Religion
• OF TRUE FASTING AND ITS REWARD: ALSO OF PURITY OF BODY – The Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude V, i | Ante-Nicene Fathers 2: Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire)
• What Fasting Was Like in the Monastery – Volume 54, Page 339 | Luther’s Works, Volume 54
• Fasting Was Made Easy By Gorging – Volume 54, Page 178 | Luther’s Works, Volume 54
• Page 313 | Understanding Theology, Volume One

Journal Articles

• Fasting – Volume 10, Number 1, Page 99 | Reformation and Revival Volume 10
• * The Question and the Answer Concerning Fasting – Page 256 | Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 100
• Why God’s People Should Fast – Volume 11, Number 4, Page 80 | Reformation and Revival Volume 11
• The Practice of Fasting in the New Testament – Page 455 | Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 147
• A Biblical Perspective on Fasting – Page 86 | Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 158
• Day of Fasting and Prayer – Page 245 | The Sword and Trowel: 1866
• Why Do Your Disciples Not Fast? – Page 155 | Semeia 16: Perspectives on Mark’s Gospel

Dictionary Entries

• Fasting – Volume 1, Page 19 | The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
• Fasts And Fasting | The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
• Fasting | Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling
• Fasting | Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
• fasting, nature of | Dictionary of Bible Themes
• Fasting | The Lexham Bible Dictionary
• Prayer | Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
• Worship and Liturgy | Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
• Fasting | A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Vols. I & II
• Fasting | The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volumes 1–3
• Fasting – Volume 1, Page 6 | Dictionary of the Apostolic Church

• Greek
  • νηστεία | The Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament
  • νηστεία | The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

Sermons

• A Fast Sermon – Page 297 | The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, Volume 15
• A Fast Sermon – Page 315 | The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, Volume 15
• Sad Fasts Changed to Glad Feasts – Page 133 | The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. XXXVIII
• Sermon for a Day of Prayer and Fasting – Page 467 | The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 4: The Age of the Reformation
• Fasting – Page 262 | Princeton Sermons
• Fast-day Service – Page 373 | The New Park Street Pulpit Sermons, Vol. III
• Fast-day Service – October 6 | 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 1)

Quotes & Illustrations

• Fast from Sinful Practices | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Early Church
• Fasting Weakens the Enemies of the Soul | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Early Church
• Fast from Evil Speech | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Early Church
• Fasting and Praying before Easter | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Medieval Church
• Power of Prayer and Fasting – Page 327 | Flashes of Thought
• Fasting Must Be Connected to Something Else | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Reformation
• Fasting Is a Subordinate Aid to Worship | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Reformation

Creeds and Confessions

• The Second Helvetic Confession Chapter XXIV – Page 417 | The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes, Volume I: The History of Creeds

Misc.

• A Hymn After Fasting – Prudentius, Cathemerina 8 | Prudentius, Volumes I & II