And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
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Gill's Exposition
And he cometh the third time,.... After he had prayed a third time, to the same purport as before:
and saith unto them, sleep on now, and take your rest; which words are spoken ironically:
it is…
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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
their eyes were heavy "sopli her yzen were greuyd," Wyclif. Even as had been the case on the Mount of Transfiguration. The original word supported by the best MSS. only occurs here, and denotes that…