43And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
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Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. …
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 39-46)We have here the awful story of Christ’s agony in the garden , just before he was betrayed, which was largely related by the other evangelists. In it Christ accommodated himself to that part of his undertaking which he was now entering upon—the making of his soul an offering for sin . He afflicted his own soul with grief for the sin he was to satisfy for, and an apprehension of the wrath of God to…
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