Sleeping for sorrow (κοιμωμενους απο της λυπης). Luke does not tell of the three turnings of Jesus to the trusted three for human …

Sleeping for sorrow. On account of the greatness of their sorrow. See Barnes on Matthew 26:40.

He found them sleeping for sorrow.—It is, perhaps, again characteristic of St. Luke, that while the other Gospels state s…

And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and p…

Theophylact of Ohrid: To make the power of prayer known to us, so that we may use it in adversity, our Lord is comforted by…

Luke does not dwell on the weakness of the disciples, nor does he describe in further detail Jesus’ agony. He does explain the disciples’ sleep as …

And when he rose from prayer
The Syriac version reads, "from his prayer", having finished it; and the Persic and Eth…

Every description that the evangelists give of the state of mind in which our Lord entered upon this conflict proves the tremendous nature of the a…