37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
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And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; …
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-46)Hitherto, we have seen the preparatives for Christ’s sufferings; now, we enter upon the bloody scene. In these verses we have the story of his agony in the garden. This was the beginning of sorrows to our Lord Jesus. Now the sword of the Lord began to awake against the man that was his Fellow; and how should it be quiet when the Lord had given it a charge ? The clouds had been gathering a good whi…
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