44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. …
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. …
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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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