32And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
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The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. …
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. …
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 32-42)Christ is here entering upon his sufferings, and begins with those which were the sorest of all his sufferings, those in his soul . Here we have him in his agony ; this melancholy story we had in Matthew; this agony in soul was the wormwood and the gall in the affliction and misery ; and thereby it appeared that no sorrow was forced upon him , but that it was what he freely admitted. I. He retired…
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