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What does it mean to watch and pray?



    
    

Clarify Share Report Asked August 20 2015 Mini Anonymous (via GotQuestions)

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
Jesus used the phrase "watch and pray" on a couple of different occasions. Once was the night before the crucifixion. Jesus took Peter, James, and John with Him to the Garden of Gethsemane, where H...

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My picture Jack Gutknecht Supporter ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Luke 21:36 Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
(36) Pray always.—The word is not the same commonly used for “pray,” but occurs once only in the other Gospels (Matthew 9:38). Luke uses it 15 times in the Gospel and Acts together, and Paul 6 times (2 Corinthians 5:20; 2 Corinthians 8:4; 2 Corinthians 10:2, etc.). It is not used by any other New Testament writer.

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