39And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
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He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. …
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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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