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Matthew 26, The disciples only asked Jesus to teach them one thing.

He taught them many things.

If I were in the disciple's shoes from where I stand now,

I might have asked him how to raise the dead

or how to heal the sick or how to do any number of extraordinary things.

How can you do that food multiplying thing?

There would have been a lot of things on my list.

I would have loved for him to teach me.

But though the disciples, the the 12 who were with him

constantly were actually moved by everything Jesus did and said but they were rocked by one thing

and one thing alone above everything else and that was Lord teach us to pray.

They somehow knew, I think through observation,

they knew that whenever Jesus left them and went up onto a mountain,

things were different when he came down.

There was something in their ability to observe how he functioned, how he handled stuff. For example, scripture tells us that, you know,

he had such great admiration for John the Baptist, his cousin, the greatest of all prophets. He

prepared the way for Jesus himself to come.

And the Bible tells us that when he got news that John had been beheaded,

he left the crowd and he went up to pray.

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