And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
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Gill's Exposition
And said unto them, why sleep ye?.... The Arabic version prefaces this with these words, "and he awaked them"; and then rebuked them for sleeping, adding,
rise and pray, lest ye enter into…
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…
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
sleeping for sorrow Psa 69:20. The last two words give rather the cause than the excuse. They are analogous to "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" of Mat 26:41. St Luke here…