'Pythagoras' Tagged Posts

'Pythagoras' Tagged Posts

PRAYER & FASTING

The Pharisees ask Jesus about “fasting” in part of today’s text.  To “fast” in the strict sense of the word is to abstain from all food and to drink only water for a specified period of time, whether short or long. People sometimes fast to signify sorrow, while confessing their sins, in times of trouble, to concentrate on some spiritual issue, or for physical discipline. A lot of famous people were in the habit of fasting:  the philosophers Socrates &…