37And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And when he returned, he found them asleep again,(for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him. …
Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. …
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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