Mark 14:40

40 And he returned and founde them a slepe agayne for their eyes were hevy: nether wist they what to answere him.

Mark 14:40 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:40

And when he returned, he found them asleep again
Notwithstanding the expostulation he had used with them, the exhortation he had given them, and the danger he had suggested to them:

for their eyes were heavy:
with sleep and sorrow:

neither wist they what to answer him;
partly through confusion and shame, not knowing how to excuse themselves; and partly, through their being stupefied with sleep and grief.

Mark 14:40 In-Context

38 watche ye and praye leest ye entre into temptacion: ye sprete is redy but ye flessh is weeke.
39 And agayne he went awaye and prayde and spake ye same wordes.
40 And he returned and founde them a slepe agayne for their eyes were hevy: nether wist they what to answere him.
41 And he cam the thyrde tyme and sayd vnto the: slepe hens forth and take youre ease it is ynough. The houre is come beholde ye sonne of man shalbe delyvered into ye hondes of synners.
42 Ryse vp let vs goo. Loo he that betrayeth me is at hande.
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