When You Pray: Matthew 6:5-15

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. The hypocrites—literally "actors"—loved visible prayer. Street corners at prayer time, synagogue platforms, anywhere with an audience. They got what they wanted: human admiration.…