Luke 5:16
New International Version
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

New Living Translation
But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.

English Standard Version
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

Berean Literal Bible
And He Himself was withdrawing into the wilderness and praying.

King James Bible
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

New King James Version
So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.

New American Standard Bible
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

NASB 1995
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

NASB 1977
But He Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

Legacy Standard Bible
But He Himself would often slip away to the desolate regions and pray.

Amplified Bible
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray [in seclusion].

Christian Standard Bible
Yet he often withdrew to deserted places and prayed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet He often withdrew to deserted places and prayed.

American Standard Version
But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But he was departing to the wilderness and praying.

Contemporary English Version
But Jesus would often go to some place where he could be alone and pray.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he retired into the desert, and prayed.

English Revised Version
But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But he would go away to places where he could be alone for prayer.

Good News Translation
But he would go away to lonely places, where he prayed.

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

Literal Standard Version
and He was withdrawing Himself in the desolate places and was praying.

Majority Standard Bible
Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

New American Bible
but he would withdraw to deserted places to pray.

NET Bible
Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.

New Revised Standard Version
But he would withdraw to deserted places and pray.

New Heart English Bible
But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

Weymouth New Testament
but Jesus Himself constantly withdrew into the Desert and there prayed.

World English Bible
But he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.

Young's Literal Translation
and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

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Context
The Leper's Prayer
15But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray. 17One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.…

Cross References
Matthew 14:23
After He had sent them away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone,

Mark 1:35
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and slipped out to a solitary place to pray.

Luke 3:21
When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

Luke 6:12
In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

Luke 9:28
About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.

Luke 9:29
And as He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became radiantly white.


Treasury of Scripture

And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Matthew 14:23
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

Mark 1:35,36
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed…

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Luke 5
1. Jesus teaches the people out of Peter's ship;
4. shows how he will make them fishers of men;
12. cleanses the leper;
16. prays in the desert;
17. heals a paralytic;
27. calls Matthew the tax collector;
29. eats with sinners, as being the physician of souls;
33. foretells the fasting and afflictions of the apostles after his ascension;
36. and illustrates the matter by the parable of patches.














(16) He withdrew himself into the wilderness.--Literally, into the wildernesses, agreeing with St. Mark's "in desert places," now in one part, now in another, of the unenclosed, uncultivated country. The addition that he "was praying" there is peculiar to St. Luke, who, throughout his Gospel, lays stress on this feature in our Lord's life. (See Introduction.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Yet
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

He
αὐτὸς (autos)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

frequently
ἦν (ēn)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

withdrew
ὑποχωρῶν (hypochōrōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5298: To withdraw, retire, go back, retreat. From hupo and choreo; to vacate down, i.e. Retire quietly.

to
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
ταῖς (tais)
Article - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

wilderness
ἐρήμοις (erēmois)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 2048: Lonesome, i.e. waste.

to
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

pray.
προσευχόμενος (proseuchomenos)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4336: To pray, pray for, offer prayer. From pros and euchomai; to pray to God, i.e. Supplicate, worship.


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