36And 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.
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And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. …
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 is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
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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