Watch with me (γρηγορειτε μετ' εμου). This late present from the perfect εγρηγορα means to keep awake and not go to sleep. The hou…

My soul is exceeding sorrowful. His human nature—his soul—was much and deeply affected and pressed down.

Even unto death. …

Exceeding sorrowful, even unto death—The infinite sadness of that hour leads the Master to crave sympathy from the three who were, most of…

Then comes Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and says unto the disciples, Sit you here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took w…

Remigius of Auxerre: The Evangelist had said a little above that when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of …

On “Gethsemane,” see comment on Mk 14:32. Taking three of his disciples with him, Jesus now faces deep, inner distress. His words “My soul is overw…

My soul is sorrowful. He communicates to them his sorrow in order to arouse them to sympathy; not that he was unaware of their we…

Then says he to them
The three disciples, Peter, James, and John, who, by his looks and gestures, might know somewha…

He who made atonement for the sins of mankind submitted himself in a garden of suffering to the will of God, from which man had revolted in a garde…

After the institution of the new Sacrament has been related, Christ here foretells the future stumbling of the disciples. The Evangelist, first, es…