It is probable that our Lord spent considerable time in prayer, and that the evangelists have recorded the substance of his petitions rather than t…

Saying the same words — This fact suggests that repetition in prayer indicates not formalism, but intensity of feeling. Lesser for…

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done…

Origen of Alexandria: He took the self-confident Peter and the others with Him, so that they might see Him falling on His fac…

Jesus returns to pray “the same thing.” As Jesus learned obedience (Hebrews 5:7–9), so he became the supreme model for his own teaching…

And he left them, and went away again
At some little distance from them; they being so overpowered with sleep, that …

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…

After the institution of the new Sacrament has been related, Christ here foretells the future stumbling of the disciples. The Evangelist, first, es…