Luke 5:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

New Living Translation
But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.

English Standard Version
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.

Berean Study Bible
Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

New American Standard Bible
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

NASB 1995
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

NASB 1977
But He Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

Amplified Bible
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray [in seclusion].

Christian Standard Bible
Yet he often withdrew to deserted places and prayed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet He often withdrew to deserted places and prayed.

Contemporary English Version
But Jesus would often go to some place where he could be alone and pray.

Good News Translation
But he would go away to lonely places, where he prayed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But he would go away to places where he could be alone for prayer.

International Standard Version
However, he continued his habit of retiring to deserted places and praying.

NET Bible
Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

New King James Version
So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.

King James 2000 Bible
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

New Heart English Bible
But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

World English Bible
But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

American King James Version
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

American Standard Version
But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

A Faithful Version
Then He withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.

Darby Bible Translation
And he withdrew himself, and was about in the desert [places] and praying.

English Revised Version
But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But he kept himselfe apart in the wildernes, and prayed.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And he kept hym selfe a part in the wildernesse, and prayed.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And he departed in to the wyldernesses, & gaue him self to prayer.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And he kepte him silfe aparte in ye wildernesses and gave him silfe to prayer.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and He was withdrawing Himself in the desolate places and was praying.

Berean Literal Bible
And He Himself was withdrawing into the wilderness and praying.

Young's Literal Translation
and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

Smith's Literal Translation
And he was retreating into the deserts, and praying.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And He Himself was withdrawing in the wilderness and praying.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he retired into the desert, and prayed.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And he withdrew into the desert and prayed.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But he was departing to the wilderness and praying.

Lamsa Bible
But he departed into the wilderness, and prayed.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And he withdrew to the deserts and prayed.

Godbey New Testament
And He was out in the deserts, and praying.

Haweis New Testament
But he himself was in the desert for retirement and prayer.

Mace New Testament
so that he retired into places of solitude, for the convenience of prayer.

Weymouth New Testament
but Jesus Himself constantly withdrew into the Desert and there prayed.

Worrell New Testament
And He was wont to retire into the deserts, and pray.

Worsley New Testament
But He frequently retired into solitary places, and prayed.
















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