Christ on the Mount of Olives by Giovanni

There are a number of times in which the

canonical gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...

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Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religiou ...

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Recorded prayers

The gospels record words that Jesus spoke in prayer: *Thanking God for his revelation (Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21) *Before the

raising of Lazarus Lazarus of Bethany (Latinised from Lazar, ultimately from Hebrew Eleazar, "God helped"), also venerated as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the subject of a prominent sign of Jesus in the Gospel of John, ...

(John 11:41-42) *"Father, glorify your name" (John 12:28) *His prayer in

John 17 John 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It portrays a prayer of Jesus Christ addressed to his Father, placed in context immediately before his betrayal and crucifixion, the events whic ...

*Three prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane *Three prayers on the cross: **"Father forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34) **"My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt 27:46, Mark 15:34) **"Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit" (Luke 23:46)

Other references to Jesus praying

Other references to Jesus praying include: *At his

baptism Baptism (from grc-x-koine, βάπτισμα, váptisma) is a form of ritual purification—a characteristic of many religions throughout time and geography. In Christianity, it is a Christian sacrament of initiation and adoption, almost ...

(Luke 3:21) *Regular time of withdrawal from the crowds (Luke 5:16) *After healing people in the evening (Mark 1:35) *Before walking on water (Matt 14:23, Mark 6:46, John 6:15) *Before choosing the Twelve (Luke 6:12) *Before Peter's confession (Luke 9:18) *At the Transfiguration (Luke 9:29) *Before teaching his disciples the

Lord's Prayer The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, is a central Christian prayer which Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gosp ...

(Luke 11:1) *Jesus says that he has prayed for

Peter Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

's faith (Luke 22:32) In addition to this, Jesus said grace before the feeding miracles, at the

Last Supper Image:The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci - High Resolution 32x16.jpg, 400px, alt=''The Last Supper'' by Leonardo da Vinci - Clickable Image, Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, ...

, and at the

supper at Emmaus According to the Gospel of Luke, the road to Emmaus appearance is one of the early post-resurrection appearances of Jesus after his crucifixion and the discovery of the empty tomb. Both the meeting on the road to Emmaus and the subsequent suppe ...

. R. A. Torrey asserts that Jesus prayed early in the morning as well as all night, that he prayed both before and after the great events of his life, and that he prayed "when life was unusually busy". R. A. Torrey, ''How to Pray''
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Other references to Jesus praying

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