Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Matthew 26:43
Verse 43. Their eyes were heavy.] That is, they could not keep them open. Was there nothing preternatural in this? Was there no influence here from the powers of darkness?
Verse 43. Their eyes were heavy.] That is, they could not keep them open. Was there nothing preternatural in this? Was there no influence here from the powers of darkness?
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...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT OF THE TRAGEDY (Matthew 26:1-5)...
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 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 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
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...
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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 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...
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)....
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 CAME AND FOUND THEM ASLEEP AGAIN. — The motive of this return we may reverently believe to have been, as before, the craving for human sympathy in that hour of awful agony. He does not now rouse th...
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)....
_Further progress of the agony_. That Jesus had not yet reached final victory is apparent from His complaint against the disciples. He came craving, needing a sympathy He had not got. When the moment...
καθεύδοντας : again! surprising, one would say incredible on first thoughts, but not on second. It was late and they were sad, and sadness is soporific....
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...
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...
43._And found them sleeping again. _This drowsiness arose neither from excessive eating and drinking, nor from gross stupidity, nor even from effeminate indulgence of the flesh, but rather—as Luke tel...
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 CAME AND FOUND THEM ASLEEP AGAIN,.... For they were aroused and awaked, in some measure, by what he had said to them; but no sooner was he gone but they fell asleep again, and thus he found the...
And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. Ver. 43. _He came and found them asleep again_] After so sweet an admonition, so sovereign a reproof; who knows how often an infirm...
_He went away again the second time_ For the sorrow of his soul still continued; _and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup_, &c. If it be necessary, in pursuance of the great end for which I came...
AND HE CAME AND FOUND THEM ASLEEP AGAIN; FOR THEIR EYES WERE HEAVY....
The continuation of the agony:...
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...
OLBGrk;OLBHeb; Ver. 42,43. Mark saith MARK 14:39,40, _And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words. And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy), neith...
Matthew 26:43 And G2532 came G2064 (G5631) found G2147 (G5719) them G846 asleep G2518 (G5723) again...
‘And he came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.' And once again He returns to the three and finds them asleep, for their eyes just would not stay open. Their weakness of flesh w...
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 26:43. FOR THEIR EYES WERE HEAVY. Drowsiness, not deep sleep, is meant; Mark adds (Mark 14:40): ‘and they knew not what they should answer Him.'...
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...
FOR THEIR EYES WERE HEAVY (ησαν γαρ αυτων ο οφθαλμο βεβαρημενο). Past perfect passive indicative periphrastic. Their eyes had been weighted down with sleep and still were as they had been on the Mo...
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 26:36. 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...
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...
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...
AND FOUND THE DISCIPLES ASLEEP. Our Savior was Man as _well_ as God. He was _"tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin"_ (Hebrews 4:15). He wants human companionship in this time of crisis....
_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 Thessalonians 5:6; Acts 20:9; Jonah 1:6; Luke 9:32; Proverbs 23:34;...