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He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn`t you watch with me for one hour?
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Sleep from Sorrow, Not Sloth
Commentators widely agree that the disciples' sleep was not a sign of indifference but a physical reaction to overwhelming grief. Citing Luke's account ("sleeping for sorrow"), scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that profound grief can induce deep sleep. This wasn't laziness; it was their human frailty buckling under the weight of intense emotional distress.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And finds them asleep. It may seem remarkable that, in such circumstances, with a suffering, pleading Redeemer near, surrounded by danger,…
What (ουτως). The Greek adverb is not interrogation or exclamatory τ, but only "so" or "thus." There is a tone of sad disappointme…
19th Century
Anglican
He comes to the disciples—perhaps to both groups, first the three and then the eight. All were sleeping, as Luke characteristicall…
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Baptist
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
Peter h…
Jesus returns to his disciples—i.e., the inner three—and finds them sleeping. Jesus’ question is addressed to Peter but is in the plural and theref…
16th Century
Protestant
And he came to his disciples. Though he was neither delivered from fear nor freed from anxiety, yet he interrupted the fervor of prayer an…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he comes unto the disciples The three he took with him, Peter, James, and John, after he had finished his prayer…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
After the institution of the new Sacrament has been related, Christ here foretells the future stumbling of the disciples. The Evangelist, first, es…
