Mark 14:35 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 14:35

Going a little farther, He fell to the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour would pass from Him.

BSB

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ASV

And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.

KJV

And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

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Commentary

1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Christian Faith 2.5.42 (397)

He has fully taken upon himself the flesh of humanity, and with it human affections. So you read in Scripture that "going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him." Here he speaks not in the voice of God but as fully human. For how could God be ignorant of the possibility or impossibility of anything? Or is anything beyond God's ability, when as Scripture itself says: "For you nothing is impossible?"

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He fell on the ground, and prayed. It was but a little before this, that in prayer he lifted up his eyes ( John xvii. 1 ); but here, being in an agony, he fell upon his face, accommodating himself to his present humiliation, and teaching us thus to abase ourselves before God; it becomes us to be low, when we come into the presence of the Most High.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

The history of our Lord's agony in the garden of Gethsemane is a deep and mysterious passage of Scripture. It contains things which the wisest divines cannot fully explain. Yet it has upon its surface plain truths of most momentous importance. Let us mark, in the first place, how keenly our Lord felt the burden of a world's sin . It is written that He began to be filled with horror and deep distress.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
προελθὼν	proelthōn	having gone forward	G4281 →
μικρὸν	mikron	a little	G3398 →
ἔπιπτεν	epipten	He was falling	G4098 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
γῆς	gēs	ground	G1093 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
προσηύχετο	prosēucheto	he was praying	G4336 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
δυνατόν	dunaton	possible	G1415 →
ἐστιν	estin	it is	G1510 →
παρέλθῃ	parelthē	it shall pass	G3928 →
ἀπ᾽	ap᾽	from	G575 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	Him	G846 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ὥρα.	hōra	hour.	G5610 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 26:39
Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
leads to
- John 6:38
  For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
- Philippians 2:8
  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.
- Matthew 26:42
  A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”
- Luke 22:41–42
  And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,
- John 5:30
  I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Through
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you…
leads to
- Exodus 34:28
  So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
- Deuteronomy 9:9
  When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.…
Through
Genesis 17:3
Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
leads to
- Judges 13:20
  When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark