Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 22:40

"And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation." — Luke 22:40 (ASV)

When he was at the place.—See Notes on Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32–38. It is noticeable that St. Luke neither gives the name Gethsemane, nor describes it as “a garden.” It is with him simply “the place” to which our Lord was accustomed to go.

Pray that ye enter not into temptation.—The words are suggestive:

1. as throwing light on the meaning of the “temptation” clause in the Lord’s Prayer, which the disciples were now to use in all the fullness of its meaning;
2. as indicating that our Lord was Himself about to enter on a time of temptation, to which He was called, and from which He would not shrink.

And yet even He, too, as the sequel shows, could utter a prayer which was in substance identical with that which He taught the disciples to use.