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Luk 6:12. Προσευχῇ, prayer) It is even because of these His prayers that the Twelve disciples are said to have been given to Jesus Christ: Joh 17:6 [comp. Luk 6:13 here in Luke 6]. A great business was transacted on this night between God and the Mediator! [Even elsewhere also Luke frequently mentions the prayers of Jesus: for instance, after His baptism, ch. Luk 3:21; before the questioning of His disciples to test them, recorded ch. Luk 9:18; before the transfiguration, ch. Luk 9:29; and when He taught His disciples to pray, ch. Luk 11:1. Comp. Mar 1:35; Luk 5:16; Mat 14:23. No evangelist however but John, excepting in the instance of the history of His passion, has detailed the very words of Jesus when praying.-Harm., p. 239.]-τοῦ Θεου, of God) Comp. Mar 11:22, note.