in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,

When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.

in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,