Luke 5:16
Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
BSB
ASV
But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.
KJV
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
(26.) And His works He indeed performed among the people, but He prayed for the most part in the wilderness, sanctioning the liberty of resting a while from labour to hold converse with God with a pure heart. For He needed no change or retirement, since there was nothing which could be relaxed in Him, nor any place in which He might confine Himself, for He was God, but it was that we might clearly know that there is a time for action, a time for each higher occupation.
He withdrew - The expression in the original implies, that he did so frequently.
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness - Or rather, He frequently withdrew into the desert. This I believe to be the import of the original words, ην ὑποχωρων. He made it a frequent custom to withdraw from the multitudes for a time, and pray, teaching hereby the ministers of the Gospel that they are to receive fresh supplies of light and power from God by prayer, that they may be the more successful in their work; and that they ought to seek frequent opportunities of being in private with God and their books.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Luke 6:12In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
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But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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After bidding them farewell, He went up on the mountain to pray.
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Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and slipped out to a solitary place to pray.
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During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
After He had sent them away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone,
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Matthew 14:23After He had sent them away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone,
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In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
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Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
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John 6:15Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
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Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”
