Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Luke 22:44
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.
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.
LUKE 22:43-44 _[[omit verses]]_ {A} The absence of these verses in such ancient and widely diversified witnesses as î(69vid), 75 aa A B T W syrs copsa, bo armmss geo Marcion Clement Origen _al,_ as w...
Verse 44. _PRAYED MORE EARNESTLY_] With greater _emphasis_ and _earnestness_ than usual, with strong crying and tears, Hebrews 5:7; the reason given for which is, that he was in an _agony_. _Kypke_ w...
See the Matthew 26:30 notes; Mark 14:26 notes. Luke 22:43 STRENGTHENING HIM - His human nature, to sustain the great burden that was upon his soul. Some have
VI. HIS REJECTION, SUFFERING AND DEATH -- CHAPTER 22-23 CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Betrayer. (Luke 22:1 .)_ 2. Preparation for the Passover. (Luke 22:7 .) 3. The Last Passover. (Luke 22:14 .) 4. The Lord...
GETHSEMANE (Mark 14:32 *, Matthew 26:36 *). Lk. does not mention the name of the place, and gives only one prayer of Jesus. He is evidently following some source other than Mk. LUKE 22:40. The Gr. le...
Jesus went out, and, as his custom was, made his way to the Mount of Olives. The disciples, too, accompanied him. When he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray that you may not enter into temptati...
AND SATAN ENTERED INTO JUDAS (Luke 22:1-6)...
BEING. becoming. Implying in creasing intensity, AN AGONY. Greek. _agenia._ Occurs only here. more earnestly. Only here. WAS. became. TO. upon. Greek. _epi._ App-104. GROUND. earth. Greek. _ge._ A...
_being in an agony_ The word which occurs here only in the N.T. though we often have the verb _agonizomai_means intense struggle and pressure of spirit, which the other Evangelists also describe in th...
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN...
43, 44. These verses are omitted in AB Sab. and some cursives, and in some MSS. are obelised and marked with asterisks. Their occasional omission is noticed as early as Epiphanius, Hilary, and Jerome....
ἘΝ�. Comp. 2Ma 3:16-17. The word which occurs here only in the N.T.—though we often have the verb ἀγωνίζομαι—means intense struggle and pressure of spirit, which the other Evangelists also describe in...
VER 43. AND THERE APPEARED AN ANGEL TO HIM FROM HEAVEN, STRENGTHENING HIM. 44. AND BEING IN AN AGONY HE PRAYED MORE EARNESTLY: AND HIS SWEAT WAS AS IT WERE GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD FALLING DOWN TO THE GRO...
_JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES -- LUKE 22:23-46:_ The disciples had some interesting discussions about who would ever do such a thing as to betray Jesus. They also discussed who would be greatest in the kin...
ΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.), см._ Luke 22:14. ΆΓΩΝΊΣΙ (G74) _dat. sing._ конфликт (спортивное соревнование), борьба; пот часто упоминается в связи с борьбой (DTM, 1:189; о медицинском и...
DISCOURSE: 1577 CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS IN THE GARDEN Luke 22:39. And he came out, and went, as he was was wont, to the Mount of Olives; and his Disciples also followed him. And when he was at the place,...
AND HIS SWEAT WAS AS IT WERE GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD— Some commentators have taken this expression in the metaphorical sense; fancying that as those who weep bitterly, are said to _weep blood,_ so they m...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Conquest (Luke 22:39-46) 39 And he came out, and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him. 40And when he came to the place he said...
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN. (=Matthew 26:36; Mark 14:32; John 18:1) This is one of those scenes in the Evangelical History which, to have been written, must have been real. If we could conceive the life...
41-46 Compare Mat_26:39-46; Mar_14:35-42. 44 Compare Heb_5:7-8. 47-48 Compare Mat_26:47-50; Mar_14:43-46; Joh_18:3-9. 48 The gentle forbearance is the most crushing quality of this question. The Lo...
TREASON OF JUDAS. THE LAST SUPPER. THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN. ARREST OF JESUS. THE JEWISH TRIAL 1-6. Conspiracy of the chief priests. Treachery of Judas (Matthew 26:1; Matthew 26:14; Mark 14:1;...
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN (Matthew 26:36; Mark 14:32). See on Mt, and on Luke 4:13. 43, 44. These vv., which contain the exquisitely human features of the bloody sweat, and the appearance of the angel t...
DROPS OF BLOOD] Great mental agony has been known to produce this phenomenon....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 22 THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS 22:1-6 V1 The time was near for the *feast of *Unleavened Bread, or *Passover. V2 The chief priests and teachers of the law...
(40-46) WHEN HE WAS AT THE PLACE. — See Notes on Matthew 26:36; Mark 14:32. It is noticeable that St. Luke neither gives the name Gethsemane, nor describes it as “a garden.” It is with him simply “_th...
AND BEING IN AN AGONY. — The Greek noun primarily describes a “conflict” or “struggle,” rather than mere physical pain. The phenomenon described is obviously one which would have a special interest fo...
CHAPTER 24 THE WATCH IN GETHSEMANE. HITHERTO the life of Jesus has been comparatively free from sorrow and from pain. With the exception of the narrow strip of wilderness which fell between the Bapti...
Luke 18:1 CHAPTER 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct of humanit...
ἐν ἀγωνίᾳ, in an agony (of fear), or simply in “a great fear”. So Field (_Ot. Nor._), who has an important note on the word ἀγωνία, with examples to show that fear is the radical meaning of the word....
ἐπὶ τοῦ τόπου, at _the_ place, of _usual resort_, not the place of _this memorable scene_, for it is not Lk.'s purpose to make it specially prominent. _Cf._ John 18:2, τὸν τόπον previously described a...
_Gethsemane_ (Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32-42). Lk.'s narrative here falls far short of the vivid realism of the parallels. Mt. and Mk. allow the infirmity of the great High Priest of humanity so grap...
DRINKING THE CUP FOR OTHERS Luke 22:35-46 Our Lord knew to what He was going. All lay naked and open before His eyes. He laid down His life of Himself; but in this supreme act of love He suffered be...
Here we have the record of final things before the Cross. The priests and the devil are seen in coalition. As the end approached, the Master is seen with the shadow of the Cross on Him, desiring to e...
And being in an (n) agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great (o) drops of blood falling down to the ground. (n) This agony shows that Christ struggled hard and was in great d...
And his sweat became as drops of blood, &c. This has sometimes happened, though in a lesser degree, to persons under extraordinary grief, if we believe Aristotle, lib. iii. Animanium, chap. xix. p. 89...
GETHSEMANE Matthew 26:30-46; Mark 14:26-42; Luke 22:39-46; John 18:1. “ _Jesus speaking these things_, went out with H
III. _Gethsemane: Luke 22:39-46_. The Lamb of God must be distinguished from typical victims by His free acceptance of death as the punishment of sin; and hence there required to be in His life a deci...
"And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation. (41) And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, (42) Saying, Father, i...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
_THE AGONY OF CHRIST_ ‘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.’ Luke 22:44 There are no flowers so beautiful as...
In chapter 22, Luke commence the details of the end of our Lord's life. The chief priests, fearing the people, seek how they may kill Him. Judas, under the influence of Satan, offers himself as an ins...
AND BEING IN AN AGONY,.... Or in a conflict, and combat; that is, with thee devil, who now appeared visibly to him, in an horrible form: after his temptations in the wilderness Satan left him for a se...
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. Ver. 44. _And being in an agony_] Μη δια τουτο ατιμος, οτι δια σε ταπεινο...
Luke 22:44. "And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly." This was in his second prayer. He prayed more earnestly than in his first; but we cannot justly suppose that it is meant that he prayed m...
_He went, as he was wont_ As was his custom every night; _to the mount of Olives_ See on Matthew 26:30. _And when he was at the place_ When he had entered the garden of Gethsemane; _he said, Pray that...
Agony in the garden. Matthew 26:30-46; MARK 14:32-41....
THE TREACHERY OF JUDAS (vs.1-6) As the Passover feast drew near, the chief priests and Pharisees felt hard pressed to find some way of apprehending and killing this "prophet" who was offending their...
39-46 Every description which the evangelists give of the state of mind in which our Lord entered upon this conflict, proves the tremendous nature of the assault, and the perfect foreknowledge of its...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 22:43...
Dialogue of Justin For in the memoirs which I say were drawn up by His apostles and those who followed them, [it is recorded] that His sweat fell down like drops of blood while He was praying, and sa...
Luke 22:44 And G2532 being G1096 (G5637) in G1722 agony G74 prayed G4336 (G5711) earnestly G1617 Then...
‘And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him, and being in an agony he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down on the ground.' Th...
THE AGONY ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES (22:39-46). Jesus now went forward with His disciples to ‘the place' (Luke does not mention the Garden of Gethsemane) on the slopes of the Mount of Olives. Perhaps Luk...
JESUS IS CRUCIFIED AND RISES AGAIN (22:1-24:53). We now come to the final Section of Luke which is also in the form of a chiasmus (see analysis below). Central in this final chiasmus is the crucifixio...
Luke 22:44. AND BEING IN AN AGONY. This was _after_ the coming of the angel. Our Lord was strengthened _for_ this _agony_ or conflict. The first result of the strengthening was that HE PRAYED MORE EAR...
Luke's account presents here new and striking details, although it is briefer than those of Matthew and Mark. In telling of our Lord's agony, Luke alone mentions the distance to which He withdrew, the...
Luke 22:39-46. THE AGONY IN GETHSEMANE. See on Matthew 26:31-46. We notice here only what is peculiar to Luke's narrative....
IN AN AGONY (εν αγωνια). It was conflict, contest from αγων. An old word, but only here in the N.T. Satan pressed Jesus harder than ever before.AS IT WERE GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD (ωσε θρομβο αιματος)...
Luke 22:44 I. The text expresses a deep mystery, of which we should try to give some account. It is a mystery; for what reason can be assigned for this intensity of suffering? Was the anticipation of...
In anticipation of the communion that is to follow this service, let us read once more the story of our Lord's agony and arrest, as recorded in the twenty-second chapter of the Gospel according to Luk...
Luke 22:7. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where w...
Luke 22:7. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where w...
Luke 22:14. _And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto...
CONTENTS: Judas covenants to betray Jesus. Last passover. Lord's supper instituted. Peter's denial predicted. Jesus' arrest. Peter's denial. CHARACTERS: Jesus, priests, scribes, disciples, Judas, Pet...
Luke 22:1. _The feast of unleavened bread drew nigh._ See Matthew 26:2. Luke 22:3. _Then Satan entered into Judas,_ by divine permission, his reigning sin of covetousness having proved his destruction...
TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. For the suffering of Gethsemane, see notes on Matthew 26:36-46; Hebrews 5:7 also speaks of this. HIS SWEAT WAS LIKE DROPS OF BLOOD. Only Luke tells this. It shows the agony of...
_The mount of Olives_ THE MOUNT OF OLIVES The mountains are Nature’s monuments. Like the islands that dwell apart, and like them that give asylum from a noisy and irreverent world. Many a meditative...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 22:44 Jesus was in AGONY in anticipation of bearing “our sins in his own body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24). his sweat became like grea
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 22:1 The Suffering and Death of Jesus. As Jesus’ death draws near, the scene shifts from the temple area to the city of Jerusalem. The emphasis shifts from Jesus’ teachings to events...
JESUS AGONIZES IN THE GARDEN MATTHEW 26:36-46; MARK 14:32-42; LUKE 22:39-46; JOHN 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went fo
CHAPTER 22 VER.6. _And he sought opportunity to betray Him unto them._ Judas sold Jesus Christ on the fourth day of the week, the day of Mercury; on the following day, or the day of Jupiter, he delive...
_And being in an agony, He prayed more earnestly._ The "et" here in the Hebrew is causal, and means quia, because. That is, the angel comforted Him; because being in an agony and praying more earnestl...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 22:39. AS HE WAS WONT.—This accounts for Judas being able to lead those who apprehended Jesus to the place where He was to be found. Luke 22:40. AT THE PLACE.—A garden or farm c...
EXPOSITION LUKE 23:1 THE LAST PASSOVER. LUKE 22:1, LUKE 22:2 Short explanatory introduction.
Luke's gospel, chapter 22. Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover (Luke 22:1). The Feast of Unleavened Bread actually was for six days, from the fifteenth of Nizan...
Genesis 32:24; Hebrews 5:7; Isaiah 53:10; John 12:27; Jonah 2:2;...
Being in an agony [γ ε ν ο μ ε ν ο ς ε ν α γ ω ν ι α]. There is in the aorist participle a suggestion of a growing intensity in the struggle, which is not conveyed by the simple being. Literally, thou...
And being in an agony — Probably just now grappling with the powers of darkness: feeling the weight of the wrath of God, and at the same time surrounded with a mighty host of devils, who exercised all...