When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”
We have here the awful story of Christ's agony in the garden, just before he was betrayed, which was largely related by the other evangelists. In it Christ accommodated himself to that part of his undertaking which he was now entering upon - the making of his soul an offering for sin.
Commenting on Luke 22:39-46
And he was withdrawn from them,.... That is, from the three disciples, Peter, James, and John, whom he took along with him, leaving the rest at some further distance; and from these he removed, about a stone's cast; fifty, or sixty feet from the place where they were: and kneeled down and prayed; the following prayer.
AGONY IN THE GARDEN. (Luk 22:39-46) as . . . wont--(See Joh 18:2).
Commenting on Luke 22:39-46