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sleep during that time.
Jesus, in the midst of this universal desertion, including that of His own
friends chosen to watch with Him, finding them asleep, is vexed because of
the danger to which they expose, not Him, but themselves; He cautions them
for their own safety and their own good, with a sincere tenderness for them
during their ingratitude, and warns them that the spirit is willing and the
flesh weak.
Jesus, finding them still asleep, without being restrained by any
consideration for themselves or for Him, has the kindness not to waken them
and leaves them in repose.
Jesus prays, uncertain of the will of His Father, and fears death; but, when
He knows it, He goes forward to offer Himself to death. Eamus.96 Processit
(John).[97]
Jesus asked of men and was not heard.
Jesus, while His disciples slept, wrought their salvation. He has wrought
that of each of the righteous while they slept, both in their nothingness
before their birth, and in their sins after their birth.
He prays only once that the cup pass away, and then with submission; and
twice that it come if necessary.
Jesus is weary.
Jesus, seeing all His friends asleep and all His enemies wakeful, commits
Himself entirely to His Father.
Jesus does not regard in Judas his enmity, but the order of God, which He
loves and admits, since He calls him friend.
Jesus tears Himself away from His disciples to enter into His agony; we must
tear ourselve