Watch and pray (γρηγορειτε κα προσευχεσθε). Jesus repeats the command of verse 38 with the addition of prayer and with the warning…

Watch. . Greater trials are approaching. It is nece ary, therefore, to remain on your guard.

And pray. Seek aid from God t…

Watch and pray — The first word is highly characteristic of our Lord’s teaching at this period (Matthew 24:42; [Reference Matt…

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Admire the tenderness of Je…

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 returns to his disciples—i.e., the inner three—and finds them sleeping. Jesus’ question is addre ed to Peter but is in the plural and therefo…

Watch and pray. Since the disciples were unmoved by their Master’s danger, their attention is directed to themselves, so that a conviction…

Watch and pray These two are very justly put together. There is, and ought to be, a watching before prayer, and "unto" it…

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…