Luke 6:12

Choosing the Twelve Apostles

6:12 Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.


tn Grk “Now it happened that in.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Or “to a mountain” (εἰς τὸ ὅρος, eis to Joro").

sn This is the only time all night prayer is mentioned in the NT.

tn This is an objective genitive, so prayer “to God.”