28 Bible Verses about Jesus Praying
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For Jesus in his life on earth offered prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and because of his piety his prayer was heard.
Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened
After he had dismissed them he went up the hill by himself to pray. And when evening came on he was there alone,
It was in those days that he went up on the mountain to pray, and passed the whole night in prayer to God.
Early in the morning, long before daylight, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely spot, and prayed there.
Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over yonder and pray."
And he went on a little way, and threw himself on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me. Yet not as I please but as you do!"
He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it cannot pass by me without my drinking it, your will be done!"
And he left them and went away again and prayed a third time, in the same words as before.
They came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."
And he went on a little way and threw himself on the ground and prayed that if it were possible he might be spared the hour of trial,
Once as he was praying in a certain place, when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples and they gave them to the people.
Then some children were brought up to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray, but his disciples reproved the people for it.
Do you suppose I cannot appeal to my Father, and he would at once furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?
I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor.
"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.
but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And afterward you yourself must turn and strengthen your brothers."
Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.
When that time comes you will ask as my followers, and I do not promise to intercede with the Father for you,
When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you, just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.read more.
I have done honor to you here on earth, by completing the work which you gave me to do. Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed. "I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message. Now at last they know that all that you have given me comes from you, for I have given them the truths that you gave me, and they have accepted them and been convinced that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me. I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor. Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are. As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true. But now I am coming to you, and I say this here in this world in order that they may have the happiness that I feel fully realized in their own hearts. I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask you to take them away from the world, but to keep them from evil. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth. Just as you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world. And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth. "It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me. Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with 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, I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me. Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.
And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you always.
who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.
