16And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. …
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.
And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)Here is, I. The cleansing of a leper, Luke 5:12-14. This narrative we had both in Matthew and Mark. It is here said to have been in a certain city (Luke 5:12); it was in Capernaum, but the evangelist would not name it, perhaps because it was a reflection upon the government of the city that a leper was suffered to be in it . This man is said to be full of leprosy ; he had that distemper in a high…
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