Mark 14:33

he taketh with him the three most trusted and long-tried of the Apostolic body, who had been before the privileged witnesses of the raising of the daughter of Jairus and of the Transfiguration.

began to be sore amazed "To drede," Wyclif. We have already met this word in ch. Mark 9:15, where it was applied to the amazementof the people when they saw the Lord after the Transfiguration, and we shall meet with it again in ch. Mark 16:5-6, where it is applied to the holy women at the Sepulchre. St Mark alone applies the word to our Lord's sensations at this crisis of His life.

to be very heavy "to heuye," Wyclif. The original word thus translated only occurs (1) here, (2) in the parallel, Matthew 26:37, and (3) in Philippians 2:26, "for he (Epaphroditus) longed after you all, and was full of heaviness." Buttmann suggests that the root idea is that of being "away from home," and so "confused," "beside oneself." Others consider the primary idea to be that of "loathing" and "discontent." Truly in respect to His human nature our Lord was far from home, far from His native skies, and the word may be taken to describe the awfulness of His isolation, unsupported by a particle of human sympathy, a troubled, restless state, accompanied by the keenest mental distress.