He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
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He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
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And he came and founde the a slepe agayne. For their eyes were hevy.
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And he came, and founde them a sleepe againe, for their eyes were heauie.
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Passages linked to Matthew 26:43 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 9:32 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.
- Proverbs 23:34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
- Jonah 1:6 So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
- Acts 20:9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.
- Romans 13:1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 43 And he came and found them asleep again:…
43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
Ver. 43. He came and found them asleep again] After so sweet an admonition, so sovereign a reproof; who knows how often an infirmity may recur, even after repentance? See it in Samson, in Jonah, in those apostles, for their contention "who should be greatest," &c.
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For their eyes were heavy] For sorrow (saith St Luke, Luk 22:45), which, exhausting the spirits, renders a man more sluggish; and hindering concoction, sends up vapours to the brain, and so causeth sleep. This was somewhat, but not sufficient to excuse them. Christ took them with him into the garden for their society and prayers. But they not only not help him, but wound him by their dulness unto duty, and instead of wiping off his bloody sweat, they draw more out of him. Judas had somewhat else to do now than to sleep, when Peter was fast, and could not hold up. Zechariah the prophet lay under such a like drowsy distemper, Zec 4:1, for though awaked and set to work, he was even ready to fall asleep at it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he left them, and went away again,.... At…
And he left them, and went away again,.... At some little distance from them; they being so overpowered with sleep, that he could have no conversation with them:
and prayed the third time; as the Apostle Paul did, when under temptation, he prayed thrice that it might depart from him, Co2 12:8,
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saying the same words: the Arabic version renders it, "in the words which he before expressed"; and Munster's Hebrew Gospel reads, "he said the same prayer"; not in the selfsame words, or in the express form he had before delivered it; for it is certain, that his second prayer is not expressed in the same form of words as the first: but the sense is, that he prayed to the same purpose; the matter and substance of his prayer was the same, namely, that he might be exempted from suffering; but if that could not be admitted of, he was desirous to be resigned to the will of his heavenly Father, and was determined to submit unto it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 43. Their eyes were heavy.] That is, they…
Verse 43. Their eyes were heavy.] That is, they could not keep them open. Was there nothing preternatural in this? Was there no influence here from the powers of darkness?
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (43) He came and found them asleep again.—The motive…
(43) He came and found them asleep again.—The motive of this return we may reverently believe to have been, as before, the craving for human sympathy in that hour of awful agony. He does not now rouse them or speak to them. He looks on them sorrowfully, and they meet His gaze with bewildered and stupefied astonishment. “They wist not what to answer Him” (Mar_14:40).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He came and found them asleep (sleeping) again. In…
He came and found them asleep (sleeping) again. In the best manuscripts "again" is connected with the verb "came." This was his second visit; he was still craving for their sympathy, still desirous of their safety under temptation. Heavy (bebarhmenoi). Weighed down with drowsiness; St. Mark adds, "Neither wist they what to answer him." He partially aroused them, but they were too overcome with sleep to enter fully into the situation or to attend to the obvious duty before them.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 43. He came and found them asleep again. The…
43. He came and found them asleep again. The motive of this return we may reverently believe to have been, as before, the craving for human sympathy in that hour of awful agony. Our Savior, we must not forget, was human as well as divine.
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