Jesus Chooses the Twelve

12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.

Other Translations of Luke 6:12

King James Version

Jesus Chooses the Twelve

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.

English Standard Version

Jesus Chooses the Twelve

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

The Message

Jesus Chooses the Twelve

12 At about that same time he climbed a mountain to pray. He was there all night in prayer before God.

New King James Version

Jesus Chooses the Twelve

12 Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

New Living Translation

Jesus Chooses the Twelve

12 One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 6:12

Commentary on Luke 6:12-19

(Read Luke 6:12-19)

We often think one half hour a great deal to spend in meditation and secret prayer, but Christ was whole nights engaged in these duties. In serving God, our great care should be not to lose time, but to make the end of one good duty the beginning of another. The twelve apostles are here named; never were men so privileged, yet one of them had a devil, and proved a traitor. Those who have not faithful preaching near them, had better travel far than be without it. It is indeed worth while to go a great way to hear the word of Christ, and to go out of the way of other business for it. They came to be cured by him, and he healed them. There is a fulness of grace in Christ, and healing virtue in him, ready to go out from him, that is enough for all, enough for each. Men regard the diseases of the body as greater evils than those of their souls; but the Scripture teaches us differently.