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Matthew 26:38

Matthew 26:38
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he went a little further,.... Luke says, Luk 22:41, "about a stone's cast", about fifty or sixty feet from the place where they were,

and fell on his face, and prayed; partly to show his great…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Matthew 26:36-45

Jesus’ agony in Gethsemane - This account is also recorded in Mar 14:32-42; Luk 22:39-46; Joh 18:1. Mat 26:36 Then cometh ... - After the institution of the Lord’s Supper, in the early part of the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

My soul This is important as the one passage in which Jesus ascribes to Himself a human soul.

watch with me The Son of man in this dark hour asks for human sympathy.

with me Only in Matthew.