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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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Albert Barnes
On Luke 22:45
18th Century
Theologian
Sleeping for sorrow. On account of the greatness of their sorrow. See Barnes on Matthew 26:40.
AT Robertson
On Luke 22:45
Sleeping for sorrow (κοιμωμενους απο της λυπης). Luke does not tell of the three turnings of Jesus to the trusted three for human …
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 22:45
19th Century
Bishop
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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Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 22:45–46
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 22:45
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 …
John Gill
On Luke 22:45
17th Century
Pastor
And when he rose from prayer
The Syriac version reads, "from his prayer", having finished it; and the Persic and Eth…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 22:39–46
17th Century
Minister
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…