Matthew:26:38-39

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rwp @Matthew:26:38 @{Watch with me } (\gr ˆgoreite met ' emou \). This late present from the perfect \egr ˆgora \ means to keep awake and not go to sleep . The hour was late and the strain had been severe , but Jesus pleaded for a bit of human sympathy as he wrestled with his Father . It did not seem too much to ask . He had put his sorrow in strong language , "even unto death " (\he “s thanatou \) that ought to have alarmed them . rwp @Matthew:26:39 @{He went forward a little } (\proelth “n mikron \). As if he could not fight the battle in their immediate presence . He was on his face , not on his knees (McNeile ). {This cup } (\to pot ˆrion touto \). The figure can mean only the approaching death . Jesus had used it of his coming death when James and John came to him with their ambitious request , "the cup which I am about to drink " (Matthew:20:22 |). But now the Master is about to taste the bitter dregs in the cup of death for the sin of the world . He was not afraid that he would die before the Cross , though he instinctively shrank from the cup , but instantly surrendered his will to the Father 's will and drank it to the full . Evidently Satan tempted Christ now to draw back from the Cross . Here Jesus won the power to go on to Calvary .

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