Jesus also prayed.
Yeppers like any observant Jewish man is whether 2000 years ago or today. The times change but the story stays the same.
From a Kabbalistic perspective men are created with three less body parts than women making us not as perfect as women.
In order to make up for problem a Jewish man does the three following...
1. Study the Torah,
2. Tefila (prayer),
3. and Mitzvot (acts of kindness, good deeds per the Torah)
The Renegade Rabbi did all three both by the letter of Torah as well as by the spirit. By doing so he was loved and hated for it.
**Jesus also prayed.**
And I like how he started into that prayer in John 17:3...”And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the ONLY true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
Jesus Christ is God because ALL the fulness of the ONLY God dwells in him. (Col. 1:19; 2:9)
John 14:6-10 “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye KNOW him. and have SEEN him.......he that hath SEEN me hath SEEN the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the WORDS that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that DWELLETH IN ME, he doeth the works.”