Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
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Gill's Exposition
And again he went away,.... To the same place, or at much such a distance from them, as before:
and prayed and spake the same words; or word, that is, the same matter; for here, answers to which…
See the notes at Mat 26:36-46. Mar 14:36 Ἀββα Abba This word denotes “father.” It is a Syriac word, and is used by the Saviour as a word denoting filial affection and tenderness. Compare Rom 8:15.…
Christ is here entering upon his sufferings, and begins with those which were the sorest of all his sufferings, those in his soul. Here we have him in his agony; this melancholy story we had in…
Cambridge Bible
the flesh is weak It is not of course implied that His own "will" was at variance with that of His Father; but, very Man, He had a human will, and knew the mystery of the opposition of the strongest,…
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