"Are you going to leave me too?"
Peter answered: "Lord, where would we go? We should die if we did not hear your words. We believe that you are the Christ."
Jesus said, "Yes, you are the men I have chosen to be with me—though there is one of you who will come to a bad end."
He was speaking of a disciple named Judas Iscariot, though the others did not know it. Jesus knew that Judas was not to be trusted.
In those difficult days Jesus spent much of his time in prayer. The disciples felt that they also needed strength and help from God. Once, when Jesus had finished praying, they said to him,
"Lord, teach us to pray, just as John the Baptist used to teach his disciples."
So Jesus taught them a prayer, and this is how it went:
"Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."
Then Jesus looked at his disciples, and told them that they ought to pray more than they did.
"Suppose," he said, "one of you went to a friend's house at midnight, and called through the window, 'Lend me some bread, for company has come unexpectedly and I haven't anything in my house.' Your friend might not want to get up out of bed, but if you kept on pleading with him, he would give you what you asked for. In the same way, keep on praying to God! Prayer is like knocking on a door. Knock, and the door will be opened."