Luke 5:16

So He Himself would withdraw into deserted places and pray.

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

In Context

15However the news about Him spread all the more, and large crowds kept gathering to hear and to be healed by Him of their sicknesses.

17Now it happened on a certain day that He was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee, and from Judea and Jerusalem, sitting there—and the power of the Lord was there to heal them.

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Cross References

Mark 1:35Now very early, still night, He got up, slipped out, and went off to a solitary place, where He was praying.

Luke 6:12Now it happened in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and He continued all night in prayer to God.

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:13-17

A Leper Cleansed. 12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. 14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. 15 But so much the… Read the whole commentary →

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