For their eyes were heavy (ησαν γαρ αυτων ο οφθαλμο βεβαρημενο). Past perfect passive indicative periphrastic. Their eyes had been…

It is probable that our Lord spent considerable time in prayer, and that the evangelists have recorded the substance of his petitions rather than t…

He came and found them asleep again—The motive for this return, we may reverently believe, was the same as before: a craving for h…

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done…

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 pray “the same thing.” As Jesus learned obedience (Hebrews 5:7–9), so he became the supreme model for his own teaching…

And found them sleeping again. This drowsiness arose neither from excessive eating and drinking, nor from gross stupidity, nor even from w…

And he came and found them asleep again
For they were aroused and awaked, in some measure, by what he had said to th…

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…