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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,.... Whether this was Michael the archangel, as some have conjectured, or Gabriel, or what particular angel, is not for us to know, nor is it of any importance: it is certain, it was a good angel: "an angel of God", as the Ethiopic version reads; since he came from heaven, and was one of the angels...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: More and more intense was that brief prayer as his supplication was continued.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And being in an agony,.... Or in a conflict, and combat; that is, with thee devil, who now appeared visibly to him, in an horrible form: after his temptations in the wilderness Satan left him for a season, till another opportunity should offer; and now it did; now the prince of this world came to him; see Lu 4:13 and attacked him in a garden,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Luke was a physician, you know, so he was the most likely one to record this phenomenon. It has happened-so we have been told,-to some other persons in intense fright or agony, that their sweat has been tinged with blood; but we never remember reading or hearing of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. The Greek has the idea of the stretching of the sinews; Christ prayed to the very stretching of his nerves and sinews. As when men wrestle for their lives, so did Christ in prayer strain every power of mind and body that he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he rose from prayer,.... The Syriac version reads, "from his prayer", having finished it; and the Persic and Ethiopic versions read, "from the place of prayer", or where he prayed: and was come to his disciples; to the three, which he had left about the distance of a stone's cast: he found them sleeping for sorrow; on his account; for he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. There must have been some very peculiar temptation about that night, that Christ’s disciples should have needed to be again and again commanded to pray this prayer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, Great sorrow may have quite opposite effects upon different men. You have, perhaps, sometimes noticed that intoxication produces upon some men exactly the opposite effect to that which it produces upon others; some become irritable and noisy, while...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. Our Lord was himself so smarting under the pain of fierce temptation that he would have his disciples pray even unto an agony, that they might not be led into it. And oh!...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And said unto them, why sleep ye?.... The Arabic version prefaces this with these words, "and he awaked them"; and then rebuked them for sleeping, adding, rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation; together with words recorded in Matthew 26:45.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said unto them, Why sleep ye! rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The great trial for them, as well as for their Lord, was close at hand then. It was late at night, and they were drowsy and sleepy; yet no time is amiss for supplication. Prayer is never out of season, and never unnecessary. We never know when temptation is near, so...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And while he yet spake,.... The above words to his disciples, behold a multitude. The Persic version adds, "of Jews, with arrows, swords, and spears"; but the multitude consisted partly of Roman soldiers, and partly of the officers of the chief priests: and he that was called Judas: and sometimes Iscariot, to distinguish him from another Judas,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword? And one of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him. It is a remarkable fact that we do not read in Scripture that any other of our Lord’s apostles — not even John, — ever kissed the Saviour. It seems as if the most impudent familiarity was very near...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Jesus said unto him, Judas,.... Calling him by his name, that he might know he knew him, and to aggravate his sin; what, Judas, my apostle, my friend, my familiar friend, in whom I trusted, or with whom I trusted all my worldly affairs, betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss! who assumed human nature for the good of mankind, who is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? Christ might put that question to many of his nominal followers in the present day: “Betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When they which were about him,.... That is, the eleven disciples that were about Christ, and with him in the garden: saw what would follow; that their Lord and master was about to be betrayed by Judas, and would be seized, and carried away by the multitude, that were with him: they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword? or "swords",...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, lord, shall we smite with the sword? There is always that tendency, even among Christian people, to get their hands on the sword-hilt, and a good man’s hand is never more out of place than there. When he has his hands clasped in prayer, or placed upon the promises of God,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And one of them smote the servant of the high priest,.... The person that drew his sword, and performed this daring action, not waiting for an answer from Christ, was Peter, and the high priest's servant, that he smote, was Malchus; both which we learn from John 18:10 and cut off his right ear; he aimed, no doubt, at his head, but missing his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut of his right ear. And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves? When I was...