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34 Jesus said to him, a“Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”  
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.
44 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour1 is at hand, and the Son of Man is being abetrayed into the hands of sinners.  
46 Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.”

Betrayal and Arrest in Gethsemane

47 And awhile He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people.  
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Matthew 26:36

Gethsemane (Geqshmanei). The word means oil-press in the Hebrew, or olive vat. The place (xwrion) was an enclosed plot or estate, "garden," or orchard (khpov). It is called villa in the Vulgate according to John 18:1. It was beyond the torrent Kedron at the foot of the Mount of Olives about three-fourths of a mile from the eastern walls of Jerusalem. There are now eight old olive trees still standing in this enclosure. One cannot say that they are the very trees near which Jesus had his Agony, but they are very old. "They will remain so long as their already protracted life is spared, the most venerable of their race on the surface of the earth. Their guarded trunks and scanty foliage will always be regarded as the most affecting of the sacred memorials in or about Jerusalem" (Stanley, Sinai and Palestine).

Here (autou),

Yonder (ekei). Jesus clearly pointed to the place where he would pray. Literally "there."




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 26:36:

Matthew 14:22
Mark 14:32
John 18:1

 

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