34And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
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Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: …
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; …
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
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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