Mark 14:34

My soul is exceeding sorrowful Here again we have a remarkable word. We met with it before (ch. Mark 6:26), where "Herod is said to have been "exceeding sorry" at the request for the Baptist's head; St Luke also uses the word (Luke 18:23-24) to describe how the rich young ruler was "very sorrowful," when he was bidden to sacrifice his wealth. It points here to a depth of anguish and sorrow, and we may believe that he, who at the first temptation had left the Saviour "for a season" (Luke 4:13), had now returned, and whereas before he had brought "to bear against the Lord all things pleasant and flattering, if so he might by aid of these entice or seduce Him from His obedience, so now he thought with other engines to overcome His constancy, and tried Him with all painful things, as before with all pleasurable, hoping to terrify, if it might be, from His allegiance to the truth, Him whom manifestly He could not allure." Trench's Studies, pp. 55, 56, and above, Mark 1:12.

and watch "with Me" adds St Matthew (Matthew 26:38). Perfect man, "of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting," He yearned, in this awful hour, for human sympathy. It is almost the only personal request He is ever recorded to have made. It was but "a cup of cold water" that He craved. But it was denied Him! Very Man, He leaned upon the men He loved, and they failed Him! He trod the winepress alone;and of the people there was none with him(Isaiah 63:3).