Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 26:41
The spirit — Your spirit: ye yourselves. The flesh — Your nature. How gentle a rebuke was this, and how kind an apology! especially at a time when our Lord's own mind was so weighed down with sorrow.
The spirit — Your spirit: ye yourselves. The flesh — Your nature. How gentle a rebuke was this, and how kind an apology! especially at a time when our Lord's own mind was so weighed down with sorrow.
Verse 41. _THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION_] If ye cannot endure a little fatigue when there is no suffering, how will ye do when the temptation, the great trial of your fidelity and courage, cometh...
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)...
THAT. to the end that. SPIRIT. Greek. _pneuma._ App-101. WILLING. ready....
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
_the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak_ The touch of clemency mingled with the rebuke is characteristic of the gentleness of Jesus....
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
ΤῸ ΜῈΝ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ΠΡΌΘΥΜΟΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The touch of clemency mingled with the rebuke is characteristic of the gentleness of Jesus....
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...
ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΟΜΑΙ (G4336) молиться, ΕΊΣΈΛΘΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1435) входить. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) указывает на содержание или передает цель моли...
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...
TEMPTATION] i.e. the temptation to forsake and deny Christ....
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...
WATCH AND PRAY. — The first word is eminently characteristic of our Lord’s teaching at this period (Matthew 24:42; Matthew 25:13). It became the watchword of the early disciples (1 Corinthians 16:13;...
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...
_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...
_Watch ye and pray, &c. We watch by being intent on good works, and by being solicitous that no perverse doctrine seize our hearts. Thus we must first watch, and then pray. (Origen) --- The spirit ind...
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...
_TO STAND WHEN FLESH IS WEAK_ ‘The spirit … is willing.’ Matthew 26:41 Appreciate St. Peter’s willing and fervent spirit. In Christ’s presence brave; miscalculated powers for the conflict. To stan...
_WATCH AND PRAY_ ‘Watch and pray.’ Matthew 26:41 Here are two great safeguards against temptation—watchfulness and prayer. I. WATCHFULNESS.—‘Watch!’—for the great enemy is ever watching you. _ (a...
41._Watch and pray. _As the disciples were unmoved by their Master’s danger, their attention is directed to themselves, that a conviction of their own danger may arouse them. Christ therefore threaten...
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,...
WATCH AND PRAY,.... These two are very justly put together. There is, and ought to be, a watching before prayer, and "unto" it; a watching all opportunities, the most suitable and convenient to perfor...
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed _is_ willing, but the flesh _is_ weak. Ver. 41. _Watch and pray_] Yea, watch, while ye are praying, against corruption within, tem...
THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION; that is, so as to be overcome by it; for the hour of the Saviour's suffering was also to be that of the fiery trial of his disciples. Compare Luke 22:31. THE SPIRIT...
The first prayer:...
WATCH AND PRAY, THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION; THE SPIRIT INDEED IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK. Leaving even His favorite disciples, though near the place where He was going, He felt constrain...
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...
Ver. 40,41. Mark hath the same, MARK 14:37,38. Luke hath nothing of our Saviour's going the second or third time, but hath some other passages, which we shall consider by and by; and telleth us but on...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians as the Lord has said: "The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak."[47] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For as the Lord has testified that "the flesh...
Matthew 26:41 Watch G1127 (G5720) and G2532 pray G4336 (G5737) lest G3363 enter G1525 (G5632) into...
“Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Jesus, knowing how very important it is for them, tells them that they must not only ‘watch'...
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 26:41. WATCH AND PRAY. The care for them, which was involved in the rebuke even, now becomes most prominent. They needed then, and, as the original implies what is habitual, always to watch, t...
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...
WATCH AND PRAY (γρηγορειτε κα προσευχεσθε). Jesus repeats the command of verse Matthew 26:38 with the addition of prayer and with the warning against the peril of temptation. He himself was feeling...
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 26:36 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...
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...
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...
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...
KEEP WATCH, AND PRAY. Not to avoid temptation, but so they will endure the temptation that must come to them. BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK. Romans 7:21-25....
_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 26:41 Their TEMPTATION was to sleep and thus to fail in their responsibility to support Jesus. It may also refer to the temptation to deny Jesus when he is led away to the cros...
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 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Corinthians 9:27; 1 Peter 4:7;...