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Luke 9:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When Jesus was alone praying, his disciples came to him, and he asked them, “What do people say about me?”

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Then he went up on a mountain where he could be alone and pray. Later that evening, he was still there.

Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. When they got there, he told them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

When Jesus had finished praying, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his followers to pray.”

While everyone else was being baptized, Jesus himself was baptized. Then as he prayed, the sky opened up,

About that time Jesus went off to a mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night there.

They answered, “Some say that you are John the Baptist or Elijah or a prophet from long ago who has come back to life.”

About eight days later Jesus took Peter, John, and James with him and went up on a mountain to pray.

While he was praying, his face changed, and his clothes became shining white.