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When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,
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Sorrow Can Induce Sleep
Commentators note that Luke uniquely provides a compassionate diagnosis for the disciples' sleep: it was "for sorrow." Scholars explain this as a known psychological and physiological response where prolonged, intense grief has a "numbing and narcotising effect," leading to physical exhaustion. Their sleep was not from laziness, but from overwhelming emotional distress.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Sleeping for sorrow. On account of the greatness of their sorrow. See Barnes on Matthew 26:40.
Sleeping for sorrow (κοιμωμενους απο της λυπης). Luke does not tell of the three turnings of Jesus to the trusted three for human …
19th Century
Anglican
He found them sleeping for sorrow.—It is, perhaps, again characteristic of St. Luke, that while the other Gospels state s…
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Baptist
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and p…
Luke does not dwell on the weakness of the disciples, nor does he describe in further detail Jesus’ agony. He does explain the disciples’ sleep as …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when he rose from prayer The Syriac version reads, "from his prayer", having finished it; and the Persic and Eth…
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Every description that the evangelists give of the state of mind in which our Lord entered upon this conflict proves the tremendous nature of the a…
