16But whenever you fast, do not become like the hypocrites, gloomy, for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Amen, I say to you, they have their reward.17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,18so that you may not appear to people to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.