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35 Peter said to Him, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And so said all the disciples.

The Prayer in the Garden

36 aThen Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.”  
37 And He took with Him Peter and athe two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.  
38 Then He said to them, a“My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”  
39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and aprayed, saying, b“O My Father, if it is possible, clet this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, dnot as I will, but as You will.”  
40 Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?
41 aWatch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. bThe spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”  
42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father,1 if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”  
43 And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
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Matthew 26:37

He took with him (paralabwn). Taking along, by his side (para-), as a mark of special favour and privilege, instead of leaving this inner circle of three (Peter, James, and John) with the other eight. The eight would serve as a sort of outer guard to watch by the gate of the garden for the coming of Judas while the three would be able to share the agony of soul already upon Jesus so as at least to give him some human sympathy which he craved as he sought help from the Father in prayer. These three had been with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration and now they are with him in this supreme crisis. The grief of Christ was now severe. The word for

sore troubled (adhmonein) is of doubtful etymology. There is an adjective adhmov equal to apodhmov meaning "not at home," "away from home," like the German unheimisch, unheimlich. But whatever the etymology, the notion of intense discomfort is plain. The word adhmonein occurs in P.Oxy. II, 298,456 of the first century AD where it means "excessively concerned." See Philippians 2:26 where Paul uses it of Epaphroditus. Moffatt renders it here "agitated." The word occurs sometimes with aporew to be at a loss as to which way to go. The Braid Scots has it "sair putten-aboot." Here Matthew has also "to be sorrowful" (lupeisqai), but Mark (Mark 14:33) has the startling phrase

greatly amazed and sore troubled (ekqambeisqai kai adhmonein), a "feeling of terrified surprise."




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 26:37:

Mark 14:33
Philippians 2:26

 

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