38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
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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