Sleep on now and take your rest (καθευδετε λοιπον κα αναπαυεσθε). This makes it "mournful irony" (Plummer) or reproachful concessi…

Sleep on now, and take your rest. Most interpreters have supposed that this should be translated as a question, rather than a com…

Sleep on now, and take your rest — There is an obvious difficulty in these words, as they are followed so immediately by the comma…

Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betr…

St. Hilary of Poitiers: After His persevering prayer, after His departures and several returns, He takes away their fear, res…

Jesus’ words here form a gently ironic command. The hour of the Passion is near: it is too late to pray and gain strength for the temptations ahead…

Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is clear enough that Christ now speaks ironically, but we must, at the same time, pay attention to th…

Then cometh he to his disciples
The three that were nearest to him, "the third time", as Mark says, ([Reference Mark…

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…