33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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;
Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. …
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Commentary
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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