Fasting Bible Verse

Matthew 17:17-23

17:17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

17:18 Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could not we cast him out?

17:19 Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

17:20 But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.

17:21 And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:

17:22 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. And they were troubled exceedingly.

17:23 And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that recieved the didrachmas, came to Peter and said to him: Doth not your master pay the didrachmas?