And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.
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 saith unto them,.... The above three disciples; my soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: he was surrounded with sorrow, and it pressed him so hard, and close, on every side, that he was just ready to die with it: tarry ye here, and watch: in Matthew it is added, "with me": See Gill on Mat 26:38.