46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
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And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. …
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. …
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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