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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Note 27 at Mt 6:6: Jesus was certainly not speaking against public prayer, as can be seen by His example (Lu 23:34; Joh 11:41-42, 12:26-30, and 17) and the examples of many other great men of God (David - 1Ch 29:10-19; Solomon - 2Ch 6:12-7:1; Jehoshaphat - 2Ch 20:5-13; Ezra - Ezr 9:4-10:1; Daniel - Da 6:10; the disciples - Ac 1:24, 4:23-30, 12:12, and 13:3; and Paul and Silas - Ac 16:25). He was simply stressing that our motivation behind prayer should not be to gain recognition from people (compare with note 26 at Mt 6:3).
