Mateo 26:44

44 Y dejándolos se fue de nuevo, y oró por tercera vez, diciendo las mismas palabras

Mateo 26:44 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 26:44

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, ( 2 Corinthians 12:8 ) ,

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.

Mateo 26:44 In-Context

42 Otra vez fue, segunda vez, y oró diciendo: Padre mío, si no puede este vaso pasar de mí sin que yo lo beba, hágase tu voluntad

43 Y vino, y los halló otra vez durmiendo; porque los ojos de ellos estaban agravados

44 Y dejándolos se fue de nuevo, y oró por tercera vez, diciendo las mismas palabras

45 Entonces vino a sus discípulos y les dice: Dormid ya, y descansad; he aquí ha llegado la hora, y el Hijo del hombre es entregado en manos de pecadores

46 Levantaos, vamos; he aquí ha llegado el que me ha entregado