28 Bible Verses about Jesus Praying

this was Jesus, who while he was in a mortal body, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong cries, and with tears, to him that was able to save him from that death, was heard so as to be delivered from his fear;

When all the people were baptizing, Jesus was likewise baptized, and whilst he was praying, the clouds opened,

and when he had dismiss'd them, he retired by himself to a mountain to pray: where he stay'd all alone till the latter part of the evening.

and when they had taken their leave, he retired to a mountain to pray.

About that time, Jesus retired to a mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in an oratory.

On the morrow rising up, while it was yet dark, he went out, and retired into a solitary place, where he prayed.

so that he retired into places of solitude, for the convenience of prayer.

One day having retired alone to prayer, he came to his disciples, and ask'd them, saying, whom do the people judge me to be?

After this, Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemani, and said to the disciples, stay here, while I go there and pray.

Then advancing a little further, he fell prostrate in prayer, and said, "O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not mine, but thy will be done."

again, he went away the second time, and prayed thus, "O my father, if I cannot avoid drinking this cup, thy will be done."

then he left them once more, and went to prayers the third time, using the same words.

At length they came to a place call'd Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, stay here, whilst I shall be at prayer.

then advancing a little further, he fell on the ground, and prayed, that this anxiety might pass from him.

Again he retired, and prayed, uttering the same words.

One day Jesus had been praying in a certain place, and as soon as he had done, one of his disciples said to him, instruct us about prayer, as John the baptist instructed his disciples.

then giving orders for the company to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks; then breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the company: who all of them eat,

Then they brought children to him in order to have his blessing: and the disciples rebuked them.

do you think my father, if I should now desire it of him, would not instantly send me more than twelve legions of angels?

"It is for them I pray: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, because they are thine.

neither pray I for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through their preaching.

but as for thee, I have pray'd that you faith may not fail. do you in return establish thy brethren.

so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

though then ye shall ask in my name: I need not promise, that I will pray the father for you;

Jesus having said this, lift up his eyes to heaven, and said, "father, the hour is come; glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee. for thou hast given him power over all men, that he might give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.read more.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. and now, O father, glorify me in heaven, with the glory which I had before the creation of the world. I have displayed thy name among those whom you have chosen out of the world for me: thine they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept thy word. now they believe that the instructions you gave me came from thee. for I have given to them the instructions which you gave me; and they have received them; and have sincerely believ'd that I came from thee, and are persuaded that thou didst send me. "It is for them I pray: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, because they are thine. for every thing that is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine, and I am glorified by them. and now I shall be no more in the world, but they will be in the world, when I am come to thee. holy father keep them by that authority, with which thou hast invested me, that they may be one, as we are. by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold. now that I am coming to thee, while I am here, I make these requests for them, that their joy in me may be compleat. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the malignity of it. they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth. as thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. and for their sakes I consecrate myself, that they also might be consecrated by the truth. neither pray I for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through their preaching. that they all may be one, as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. and the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am going; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me: for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world; yet, O righteous father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

and I will pray the father, and he shall give you another advocate, to abide with you for ever;

but yet even now whatever you shall ask of God, I know God will grant it to you.

who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us?