38Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
For I know that in me(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. …
And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
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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