He went forward a little (προελθων μικρον). As if he could not fight the battle in their immediate presence. He was on his face, n…

And he went a little farther. That is, at the distance a man could conveniently cast a stone (Luke).

Fell on his face. Luk…

He went a little farther — Saint Luke adds (Luke 22:41) that it was about a stone’s cast. The eight were left…

Then comes Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and says unto the disciples, Sit you here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took w…

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 prays, prostrate in his intense anguish. He addresses God as “My Father” . The “cup” (GK 4539) refers not only to suffering and death but, as…

And he went forward a little. We have seen in other passages that, to stir himself to greater earnestness in prayer, the Lord prayed in th…

And he went a little further
Luke says, (Luke 22:41) , "about a stone's cast", about fifty or sixty feet…

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…