29 Bible Verses about Jesus Praying
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During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As He was praying, heaven opened,
After dismissing the crowds, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone.
During those days He went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, He got up, went out, and made His way to a deserted place. And He was praying there.
While He was praying in private and His disciples were with Him, He asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and He told the disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”
Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
After leaving them, He went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.
Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and He told His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
Then He went a little farther, fell to the ground, and began to pray that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.
He was praying in a certain place, and when He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
Then He commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
Then children were brought to Him so He might put His hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked them.
Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?
I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world
but for those You have given Me,
because they are Yours.
I pray not only for these,
but also for those who believe in Me
through their message.
But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion,
and He will receive the mighty as spoil,
because He submitted Himself to death,
and was counted among the rebels;
yet He bore the sin of many
and interceded for the rebels.
Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.
Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:
Father,
the hour has come.
Glorify Your Son
so that the Son may glorify You,
for You gave Him authority
over all flesh;
so He may give eternal life
to all You have given Him.
This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.
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I have glorified You on the earth
by completing the work You gave Me to do.
Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed. I have revealed Your name
to the men You gave Me from the world.
They were Yours, You gave them to Me,
and they have kept Your word.
Now they know that all things
You have given to Me are from You,
because the words that You gave Me,
I have given them.
They have received them
and have known for certain
that I came from You.
They have believed that You sent Me.
I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world
but for those You have given Me,
because they are Yours.
Everything I have is Yours,
and everything You have is Mine,
and I have been glorified in them.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.
Holy Father,
protect them by Your name
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.
While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,
so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have My joy completed in them.
I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.
I am not praying
that You take them out of the world
but that You protect them from the evil one.
They are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them by the truth;
Your word is truth.
As You sent Me into the world,
I also have sent them into the world.
I sanctify Myself for them,
so they also may be sanctified by the truth. I pray not only for these,
but also for those who believe in Me
through their message.
May they all be one,
as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You.
May they also be one in Us,
so the world may believe You sent Me.
I have given them the glory You have given Me.
May they be one as We are one.
I am in them and You are in Me.
May they be made completely one,
so the world may know You have sent Me
and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Father,
I desire those You have given Me
to be with Me where I am.
Then they will see My glory,
which You have given Me
because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.
Righteous Father!
The world has not known You.
However, I have known You,
and these have known that You sent Me.
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.
Who is the one who condemns?
Christ Jesus is the One who died,
but even more, has been raised;
He also is at the right hand of God
and intercedes for us.
