And he cometh the third time. — We may note St. Mark’s omission of the third repetition of the prayer.

It is enough. — Peculiar to St. Mark, and probably noting the transition from the half-reproachful permission, “Sleep on now, and take your rest,” to the emphatic and, as it were, startled exclamation, “the hour is come.”

Is betrayed. — The tense, as in St. Matthew, is present, “is at this moment being betrayed.”

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