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 will call his name John.

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do likewise, but Yours eat and drink.”

Jesus Appoints the Twelve

Now it happened that at this time He went off to the mountain to pray, and He was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

The Lord’s Prayer

And it happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”

Parables on Prayer

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

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

who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

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