43And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
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But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. …
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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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