41Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. …
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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