He went forward a little (προελθων μικρον). As if he could not fight the battle in their immediate presence. He was on his face, n…

And he went a little farther. That is, at the distance a man could conveniently cast a stone (Luke).

Fell on his face. Luk…

He went a little farther — Saint Luke adds (Luke 22:41) that it was about a stone’s cast. The eight were left…

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…

Origen of Alexandria: He took the self-confident Peter and the others with Him, so that they might see Him falling on His fac…

Jesus prays, prostrate in his intense anguish. He addre es God as “My Father” . The “cup” (GK 4539) refers not only to suffering and death but, as …

And he went forward a little. We have seen in other passages that, to stir himself to greater earnestness in prayer, the Lord prayed in th…

And he went a little further
Luke says, (Luke 22:41) , "about a stone's cast", about fifty or sixty feet…

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…