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The Shocking Depth of His Agony
Commentators emphasize that Mark uses exceptionally strong words like "greatly amazed" and "sore troubled." This wasn't just sadness; it was a profound, shocking agony that left Jesus, as one scholar puts it, "astonished out of all composure." The disciples had never witnessed Him in such a state, revealing the unique horror of the moment.
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AT Robertson
On Mark 14:33
Greatly amazed and sore troubled (εκθαμβεισθα κα αδημονειν). Matthew 26:37 has "sorrowful and sore troubled." See on Ma…
Charles Ellicott
On Mark 14:33
19th Century
Bishop
Began to be sore amazed.—Note St. Mark’s use of the stronger word as compared with St. Matthew’s to be sorrowful…
Charles Spurgeon
On Mark 14:33
19th Century
Preacher
They had not seen him in that state before. He seemed like one distracted, so amazed—like one astonished out of all composure, unable to coll…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 14:33
Gethsemane was a garden located somewhere on the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives, in which there were olive trees and olive presses. It was one…
John Gill
On Mark 14:33
17th Century
Pastor
And he takes with him Peter, and James, and John Who were witnesses of his transfiguration on the mount, and now of his s…
Matthew Henry
On Mark 14:32–42
17th Century
Minister
Christ's sufferings began with the most severe of all: those in His soul. He began to be greatly distressed���words not used in Matthew, but very f…