Mark 14:35

35 et cum processisset paululum procidit super terram et orabat ut si fieri posset transiret ab eo hora

Mark 14:35 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:35

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).

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Maimon. Hilch. Tephilla, c. 5. sect. 13.

Mark 14:35 In-Context

33 et adsumit Petrum et Iacobum et Iohannem secum et coepit pavere et taedere

34 et ait illis tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem sustinete hic et vigilate

35 et cum processisset paululum procidit super terram et orabat ut si fieri posset transiret ab eo hora

36 et dixit Abba Pater omnia possibilia tibi sunt transfer calicem hunc a me sed non quod ego volo sed quod tu

37 et venit et invenit eos dormientes et ait Petro Simon dormis non potuisti una hora vigilare