Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 26:42

"Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, My Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, thy will be done." — Matthew 26:42 (ASV)

These calm, simple words scarcely convey to our minds a full idea of the intense agony under which they were uttered. Luke mentions that our Savior, in His second supplication, prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

The tension upon His whole frame became so great that His life seemed oozing away through every pore of His body, and He was so weak and faint, through the terrible strain, that He might well fear that His human nature would sink under the awful trial and that He would die before His time. Yet even then He recognized His sonship, O my Father! and He absolutely surrendered Himself to His Father’s will, Thy will be done.