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LUKE 6:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 6:11Luke 6:13
“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.”
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God — the night of prayer before the appointment of the twelve is unique to Luke — no other Gospel records the overnight prayer. Spent the night praying to God communicates the weight of what Jesus is about to do: the appointment of the twelve is not a managerial decision but a prayerful act of discernment. The mountain and the overnight prayer position the appointment within the pattern of divine encounter.

Church Fathers on Luke 6:12

When adversaries rose up against the miracles and teaching of Christ, He chose Apostles as defenders and witnesses of the truth, and prefaces their election with prayer; as it is said, And it came to pass, &c.

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation

Let not your ears be open to deceit, that you should think that the Son of God prays from want of strength, that He may obtain what He could not perform; for being Himself the Author of power, the Master of obedience, He leads us by His own example to the precepts of virtue.

Ambrose · 4th century

Let us examine then in the actions which Jesus did, how He teaches us to be instant in prayer to God, going apart by ourselves, and in secret, no one seeing us; putting aside also our worldly cares, that the mind may be raised up to the height of divine contemplation and this we have marked in the fact, act, that Jesus went into a mountain apart to pray.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century
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