45And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
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And when he returned, he found them asleep again,(for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him. …
And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
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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