Matthew 26:36 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 26:36

At that time Jesus went with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and He told them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I go yonder and pray.

KJV

Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 36.) Then Jesus came with them to a village called Gethsemane and said to his disciples, 'Sit here while I go over there and pray.' Gethsemane means 'very fertile valley,' in which he ordered the disciples to sit for a little while and wait for the Lord to return, while he prayed for everyone alone.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Then cometh Jesus with them,.... The eleven disciples, unto a place called Gethsemane; the Syriac version calls it Ghedsiman; the Persic, Ghesmani, so the Arabic; the Vulgate Latin, and the Ethiopic, Gethsemani: in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and in the Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, it is called a "village"; and in the Ethiopic version, "a village of wine"; and in the Syriac and Persic versions, a place. Here, according to an Ethiopic writer, the Virgin Mary was buried by the apostles (d).

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Then cometh Jesus to a place called Gethsemane - That is, the valley of fatness. The garden probably had its name from its soil and situation, laying in some little valley between two of those many hills, the range of which constitutes the Mount of Olives.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A place called Gethsemane - A garden at the foot of the mount of Olives. The name seems to be formed from גת gath, a press, and סמן shemen, oil; probably the place where the produce of the mount of Olives was prepared for use. The garden of the oil-press, or olive-press. Sit ye here - Or, stay in this place, while I go and pray yonder: and employ ye the time as I shall employ it - in watching unto prayer.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

The verses we have now read describe what is commonly called Christ’s agony at Gethsemane. It is a passage which undoubtedly contains deep and mysterious things. We ought to read it with reverence and wonder, for there is much in it which we cannot fully comprehend. Why do we find our Lord so “sorrowful and very heavy,” as he is here described? What are we to make of his words, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.”

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τότε	Tote	Then	G5119 →
ἔρχεται	erchetai	comes	G2064 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	them	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
χωρίον	chōrion	a place	G5564 →
λεγόμενον	legomenon	being named	G3004 →
Γεθσημανὶ	Gethsēmani	Gethsemane	G1068 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
λέγει	legei	He says	G3004 →
τοῖς	tois	to the	G3588 →
μαθηταῖς·	mathētais	disciples;	G3101 →
καθίσατε	kathisate	do sit	G2523 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	here	G847 →
ἕως	he'ōs	until	G2193 →
οὗ	hou	that	G3739 →
ἀπελθὼν	apelthōn	having gone away	G565 →
ἐκεῖ	ekei	over there	G1563 →
προσεύξωμαι.¶	proseuxōmai	I may pray.	G4336 →

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

The walk

The walk8

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.
- Luke 22:41–42
  And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,
- 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.”
- 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
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.”
leads to
- 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.”
- Mark 14:39–40
  Again He went away and prayed, saying the same thing.
- Hebrews 4:15
  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.