Tertullian

“ By and by the Lord Himself consecrated His own baptism (and, in His own, that of all) by fasts; [2] having (the power) to make “loaves out of stones,” [3] say, to make Jordan flow with wine perchance, if He had been such a “glutton and toper.” [4] Nay, rather, by the virtue of contemning food He was initiating “the new man” into “a severe handling” of “the old,” [5] that He might show that (new man) to the devil, again seeking to tempt him by means of food, (to be) too strong for the whole power of hunger. ”

“ We produce, too, our remaining (evidences) . For we now hasten to modern proofs. On the threshold of the Gospel, [1] Anna the prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, “who both recognised the infant Lord, and preached many things about Him to such as were expecting the redemption of Israel,” after the pre-eminent distinction of long-continued and single-husbanded widowhood, is additionally graced with the testimony of “fastings” also ”