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Luke 5:16
And he retired into the desert; and prayed.
Luke 5:16 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Luke 5:16 in other translations
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
But he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.
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In context
13 And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
14 And he charged him that he should tell no man, but: Go, shew thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
15 But the fame of him went abroad the more: and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
16 And he retired into the desert; and prayed.
17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was to heal them.
18 And behold, men brought in a bed a man who had the palsy: and they sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him.
19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down through the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus.
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