As with the almsgiving and the praying by the scribes and Pharisees, Jesus also dismissed their fasting as meaningless: “When you are fasting, stop becoming sad - faced like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting.
उपवास यहोवा को स्वीकार्य है — लेकिन उस तरह नहीं जिस तरह फ़रीसियों ने यह किया ।