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But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John.
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and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.
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And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.”
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In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
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Chapter 11
The Lord’s Prayer. He was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”
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and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.” Further Teachings on Prayer.
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I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. The Answer to Prayer.
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The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity—greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector.
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saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’”
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They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.”
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When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief.