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Watch and pray, that you don`t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
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Commentators explain that "watch" and "pray" are an inseparable pair of commands. Watching involves being alert to spiritual dangers and our own weaknesses. Praying involves actively seeking God's strength to overcome them. Scholars like Spurgeon note that watching helps us pray, and praying helps us watch. Together, they form our defense against being overcome by temptation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Watch. (). Greater trials are approaching. It is necessary, therefore, to remain on your guard.
And pray. Seek aid from Go…
Watch and pray (γρηγορειτε κα προσευχεσθε). Jesus repeats the command of verse 38 with the addition of prayer and with the warning…
19th Century
Anglican
Watch and pray — The first word is highly characteristic of our Lord’s teaching at this period (Matthew 24:42; [Reference Matt…
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Baptist
It was truly kind of Christ to find an excuse for His weak and weary disciples. It was just like Him to say anything He could in their praise, even…
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
Watch and pray. Since the disciples were unmoved by their Master’s danger, their attention is directed to themselves, so that a conviction…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Watch and pray These two are very justly put together. There is, and ought to be, a watching before prayer, and "unto" it…
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…
