But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

A Question About Fasting

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”

The Twelve Apostles

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

The Lord's Prayer

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,