And he went forward a little
 About a stone's cast, ( Luke 22:41 ) , 
 and fell on the ground, and prayed;
 he fell on his face to the ground, which was a praying posture. One of the Jewish canons concerning it, is this F1: 
``worshipping, how is it done? after a man has lifted up his head; he bows it five times, he sits upon the ground, and "falls upon his face", (hura) , "to the ground", and supplicates with whatsoever supplication he pleases: worshipping, or bowing, is the stretching out of hands and feet, until a man is found cast upon his face to the ground.''(See Gill on Matthew 26:39). The supplication Christ made in this posture was,
 that, it were possible, the hour might pass from him;
 the time fixed and agreed upon for his sufferings and death; that is, that it might pass without his enduring them, if there was any possibility of excusing him, and of his people's being saved without them; (See Gill on Matthew 26:39).