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Matthew 26:40
And He cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with Me one hour?
And He cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with Me one hour?
Verse 40. _HE - SAITH UNTO PETER_] He addressed himself more particularly to this apostle, because of the profession he had made, Matthew 26:33; as if he had said: "Is this the way you testify your af...
JESUS’ AGONY IN GETHSEMANE - This account is also recorded in Mark 14:32; Luke 22:39; John 18:1. Matthew 26:36...
13. THE PASSION OF THE KING. Chapter s 26-27. CHAPTER 26 1. His Death Planned. (Matthew 26:1 .) 2. Mary of Bethany Anointing the King.(Matthew 26:6 .) 3. The Betrayal. (Matthew 26:14 .) 4. The Last...
GETHSEMANE (Mark 14:32 *, Luke 22:39). Mt. is in closest agreement with Mk., except that he gives the words of the second prayer and states definitely that Jesus prayed a third time. Matthew 26:45. A...
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go away and pray in this place." So he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT OF THE TRAGEDY (Matthew 26:1-5)...
ASLEEP. Intentionally. App-171....
The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:39-46; John 18:1 In St Luke's account Matthew 26:43-44 are pecul
_saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch_ Note that the verb is in the plural. As Peter took the lead in the promise of devotion, Jesus singles him out for rebuke. St Mark has "Simon (the name of t...
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:39-46; John 18:1 In St Luke’s account Matthew 26:43-44 are peculia
ΟΥ̓Κ ἸΣΧΎΣΑΤΕ; Had you not the ἰσχύς—the physical strength to watch? This was an instance of failing to serve God with their strength (ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ἰσχύος, Mark 12:30). ἰσχύω, not a mere synonym of δύν...
Ver 39. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." 40. And he co...
_THE PRAYER IN GETHSEMANE AND THE BETRAYAL MATTHEW 26:36-56:_ In the garden Jesus experienced great agony. He said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." (Matthew 26:38) He experienced sa...
ΕΎΡΊΣΚΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить; hist, _praes._ ΚΑΘΕΎΔΟΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΑΘΕΎΔΩ (G2518) спать, ΙΣΧΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΙΣΧΎΩ (G2480) иметь силы, быть способны...
AND HE COMETH, &C.— It was now very late in the evening; for after supper Christ had made his disciples a long discourse, from John, John 14-17. and besides they were oppressed and stupified with sorr...
SECTION 67 JESUS PRAYS IN GETHSEMANE (Parallels: Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:39-46) TEXT: 26:36-46 36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto his disciples, Sit ye here...
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 22:39....
33-35 Compare Mar_14:29-31; Luk_22:31-34; Joh_13:36-38. 33 The Lord had said distinctly that all of them should be snared. Peter's fall began by refusing to believe that the Lord's all meant all. Of c...
THE BETRAYAL. THE LAST SUPPER. ARREST OF JESUS, AND TRIAL BEFORE THE HIGH PRIEST 1-5. A Council is held against Jesus (Mark 14:1; Luke 22:1 : cp. John 13:1)....
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN (Mark 14:32; Luke 22:40). The peculiar intensity of Christ's agony at Gethsemane presents a difficult problem. It cannot have been due to fear of death, for He came to Jerusale...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 26 PLANS TO KILL JESUS 26:1-5 V1 When Jesus had finished teaching those things, he spoke again to his *disciples. V2 ‘As you know, t...
HE COMETH UNTO THE DISCIPLES. — Perhaps to both the groups — first of the three and then of the eight. All were alike sleeping — as St. Luke characteristically adds, “sleeping for sorrow.” WHAT, COULD...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
ἔρχεται : not necessarily immediately after uttering the foregoing prayer. Jesus may have lain on the ground for a considerable time silent. τῷ Πέτρῳ : all three were asleep, but the reproach was most...
_The agony_ (so called from the word ἀγωνία in Luke 22:44, a ἅπαξ λεγ.)....
_Gethsemane_ (Mark 14:26-42; Luke 22:39-46)....
THE HOUR WHEN THE FLESH WAS WEAK Matthew 26:36-46 In human life there is a close connection between our hymns and our olive-presses. We pass from the supper to the garden, from the emblems to the rea...
The Lord now reverted to the theme of His coming suffering, telling the disciples with great definiteness of the time-"after two days"; and of the event-"The Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified...
(11) And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? (11) An example of the carelessness of man....
GETHSEMANE Matthew 26:30-46; Mark 14:26-42; Luke 22:39-46; John 18:1. “ _Jesus speaking these things_, went out with H
"Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. (37) And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and beg...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
40._And he came to his disciples. _Though he was neither delivered from fear, nor freed from anxiety, yet he interrupted the ardor of prayer, and administered this consolation. For believers are not r...
The Lord had finished His discourses. He prepares (chapter 26) to suffer, and to make His last and touching adieus to His disciples, at the table of His last passover on earth, at which He instituted,...
AND HE COMETH UNTO THE DISCIPLES,.... The three he took with him, Peter, James, and John, after he had finished his prayer; AND FINDETH THEM ASLEEP: many things might contribute to, and bring this dr...
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Ver. 40. _And he cometh unto the disciples_] They were his care in the mids...
_And he cometh unto the disciples_ Unto the three from whom he had withdrawn himself a little way; _and findeth them asleep_ Notwithstanding the distress they saw him in, and the strict command that h...
UNTO PETER; who had just before been so strong in his professions of fidelity to his Master....
Only when His prophetic word, with its every dispensational bearing, is complete does the King, in calm, conscious authority, declare to His disciples that the time has arrived for His being betrayed...
36-46 He who made atonement for the sins of mankind, submitted himself in a garden of suffering, to the will of God, from which man had revolted in a garden of pleasure. Christ took with him into tha...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 26:41"....
Matthew 26:40 Then G2532 came G2064 (G5736) to G4314 disciples G3101 and G2532 found G2147 (G5719) them...
‘And he comes to the disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, “What, could you not watch with me one hour?” ' Taking a brief respite from His agony He returns to the inner three, but onl...
AGONY IN THE GARDEN (26:36-46). Jesus and His disciples arrive in Gethsemane. We who know what to expect recognise that the crucial hour has come, but it is salutary to recognise that prior to His ord...
Matthew 26:40. SLEEPING. Not sound asleep, as we infer from Matthew 26:43, but in a dozing, drowsy state. Excessive sorrow has this result (comp. Luke 22:45). Spiritual influences, too, exhaust the bo...
THE CONFLICT IN GETHSEMANE. This conflict presents our Lord in the reality of His manhood, in weakness and humiliation, but it is impossible to account for it unless we admit His Divine nature. (Hence...
THE PREDICTION OF PETER'S DENIAL. The conversation recorded in Matthew 26:31-35 seems to have taken place on the way across the brook Kedron to Gethsemane. Luke inserts a similar prediction, in connec...
WHAT (ουτως). The Greek adverb is not interrogation or exclamatory τ, but only "so" or "thus." There is a tone of sad disappointment at the discovery that they were asleep after the earnest plea th...
Matthew 26:40 I. How gently, yet how earnestly, does Christ call upon us to watch and pray, lest we enter into temptation. To watch and to pray; for of all those around Him some were sleeping and none...
Matthew 26:38 Divine Sorrow. It is not on the actual physical sufferings of the Crucifixion that the Bible most invites us to dwell it relates them, but it passes over them as lightly as the circums...
Matthew 26:36 Gethsemane. I. The first thing to which we direct attention, is the intense severity of the suffering which now overwhelmed and oppressed the mind of Christ. The extreme severity of Chr...
Matthew 26:14. _Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for...
Matthew 26:36. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee...
The story of Peter's denial of his Master is recorded in all four of the Gospels. There are some differences of expression in each version, so it will not be tautology if we read all four of them; and...
CONTENTS: Authorities plot Christ's death. Jesus annointed by Mary of Bethany. Judas sells Jesus. The last Passover. Lord's supper instituted. Gethsemane experience. Jesus before Caiaphas and Sanhedri...
Matthew 26:2. _After two day is the passover._ This is the literal import of the Greek word πασχα _pascha,_ and the Hebrew word פסח _pesach,_ because the Israelites, after eating the paschal lamb, pas...
THEN HE RETURNED. Peter, James, and John are sleeping. Luke says their great grief made them sleep. It is said that condemned men usually sleep soundly the night before their execution....
_Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation _ CHRISTIAN CAUTION Who sleeps by a magazine of gunpowder needs to take care even of sparks. Who walks on ice, let him not go star-gazing, but loo...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 26:1 The Crucified Messiah. Matthew narrates the events leading to Jesus’ death: (1) the Passover and Lord’s Supper and events in Gethsemane (Matthew
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
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 26:36. GETHSEMANE = “the oil press.”—On the slope of the Mount of Olives. Probably there was, or had been, in it a press for the manufacture of olive oil. The identity of thi...
EXPOSITION Ch. 26-28:20 THUS JESUS ENTERS UPON HIS KINGDOM. Before attempting to expound this most momentous section of the gospel history, we must make up our minds concerning the solution of the di...
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings (Matthew 26:1), This is the end of now the Olivet discourse. He now said to his disciples, Now you know that in two days is the feast o...
1 Kings 20:11; 1 Samuel 26:15; 1 Samuel 26:16; Judges 9:33; Luke 22:45
What! It is hardly possible to convey the exact force of the Greek outwv, thus or so. The idea is, "are ye thus unable, or so utterly unable to watch?...