44And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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;
Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. …
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
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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