All Christ's public acts were consecrated by prayer, - His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. " His last breath," says Philip Henry, "was praying breath." (John Rose Macduff)

All Christ's public acts were consecrated by prayer, - His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. " His last breath," says Philip Henry, "was praying breath."

John Rose Macduff

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