Luke 5:16

Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

In Context

15But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed by Him of their sicknesses.

17One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.

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Cross References

Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and went out to a solitary place to pray.

Luke 6:12In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the 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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