Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
Christ is here entering upon his sufferings, and begins with those which were the sorest of all his sufferings, those in his soul. Here we have him in his agony; this melancholy story we had in Matthew; this agony in soul was the wormwood and the gall in the affliction and misery; and thereby it appeared that no sorrow was forced upon him, but that...
Commenting on Mark 14:32-42
And again he went away,.... To the same place, or at much such a distance from them, as before: and prayed and spake the same words; or word, that is, the same matter; for here, answers to which signifies a thing, or matter, as well as word: Christ prayed to the same effect, for matter and substance the same as before, though not in the...