16But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.


In Context

13 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him.

14 Then Jesus ordered him, "Don't tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."

15 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

17 One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick.

18 Some men came carrying a paralytic on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus.

Luke 5:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And he retired into the desert, and prayed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:16But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And he withdrew himself, and was about in the desert places and praying.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:16But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.