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He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
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Repetitive Prayer is Biblical
Commentators like Spurgeon and Gill highlight that Jesus praying the same prayer three times provides a powerful model for believers. When you are in deep distress, it is natural and biblically sound to repeat your petitions to God. This is not a lack of faith, but an expression of earnestness, following the example of both Jesus and the Apostle Paul.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Saying the same words — This fact suggests that repetition in prayer indicates not formalism, but intensity of feeling. Lesser for…
Baptist
Great sorrow produces different results in different persons. In the Savior’s case, it aroused Him to a profound agony of earnestness in prayer. In…
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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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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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…
