29 Bible Verses about Jesus Praying

As a mortal man, he offered up 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 devotion to God.

When all the people had been baptized, Jesus, too, was baptized. While he was praying, heaven opened,

After dismissing the crowds, he went up on a hillside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

After saying goodbye to them, he went up on a hillside to pray.

Now it was in those days that Jesus went to a mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God.

In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went to a deserted place and prayed there.

However, he continued his habit of retiring to deserted places and praying.

One day, while Jesus was praying privately and the disciples were with him, he asked them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane. He told the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over there and pray."

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, "O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

He went away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot go away unless I drink it, let your will be done."

After leaving them again, he went away and prayed again for the third time, saying the same thing.

Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

He went away again and prayed the same prayer as before.

Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he had finished, one of his disciples told him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

Don't you think that I could call on my Father, and he would send me more than twelve legions of angels now?

"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.

I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message,

but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail. When you have come back, you must strengthen your brothers."

Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he carried the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions."

Therefore, because he always lives to intercede for them, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him.

At that time, you will make your requests in my name, so that I will have no need to ask the Father on your behalf,

After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you. For you have given him authority over all humanity so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him. And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah. read more.
I glorified you on earth by completing the task you gave me to do. "So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed. I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they realize that everything you gave me comes from you, because the words that you gave me I passed on to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. "I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours. All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified through 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, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. "And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world. I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one. They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world. "Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth. I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message, so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. "I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one. I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world. "Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

I will ask the Father to give you another Helper, to be with you always.

But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you."

Who is the one to condemn? It is the Messiah Jesus who is interceding on our behalf. He died, and more importantly, has been raised and is seated at the right hand of God.