And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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Gill's Exposition
And when he rose from prayer,.... The Syriac version reads, "from his prayer", having finished it; and the Persic and Ethiopic versions read, "from the place of prayer", or where he prayed:
and was…
See the Mat. 26:30-46 notes; Mark 14:26-42 notes. Luk 22:43 Strengthening him - His human nature, to sustain the great burden that was upon his soul. Some have supposed from this that he was not…
Adam Clarke
Prayed more earnestly - With greater emphasis and earnestness than usual, with strong crying and tears, Heb 5:7; the reason given for which is, that he was in an agony. Kypke well observes, Vox αγωνια…
We have here the awful story of Christ's agony in the garden, just before he was betrayed, which was largely related by the other evangelists. In it Christ accommodated himself to that part of his…
Cambridge Bible
being in an agony The word which occurs here only in the N.T. though we often have the verb agonizomaimeans intense struggle and pressure of spirit, which the other Evangelists also describe in the…
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