“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so 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 while he yet spake,.... The above words to his disciples, behold a multitude. The Persic version adds, "of Jews, with arrows, swords, and spears"; but the multitude consisted partly of Roman soldiers, and partly of the officers of the chief priests: and he that was called Judas: and sometimes Iscariot, to distinguish him from another Judas, who also was of the number of the...
AGONY IN THE GARDEN. (Luk 22:39-46) as . . . wont--(See Joh 18:2).
Commenting on Luke 22:39-46