Pastors Jim and Marie Watt
(From: MATTHEW #44 - 26:36-56)
D. 26:36-56 PRAYER AND BETRAYAL OF JESUS AT GETHSEMANE
1. 26:36-46 AGONY OF PRAYER IN THE GARDEN
a. 26:36 JESUS PLANS PRAYER AT GETHSEMANE
TOte ERche-tai met' auTON ho IeSOUS eis choRIon [5564]leGOme-non Geth-se-maNEI,
Then comes :Jesus with them unto an enclosure called Gethsemane,
kai LEgei tois ma-theTAIS, KaTHIsa-te auTOU, HEos hou a-pelTHON eKEI proSEUxo-mai [4336].
and says to the disciples, Sit here, while I go yonder andpray.
b. 26:37 THREE DISCIPLES BROUGHT TO ACCOMPANY HIM
kai pa-ra-laBON ton PEtron kai tous DUo huiOUS Ze-beDAIou,
And he took with him:Peter and the two sons of Zebedee,
ERxa-to luPEISthai [3076]kai a-de-moNEIN.
andbegan to be sorrowful and sore troubled.
c. 26:38 HE SEEKS THEIR PRAYER SUPPORT
TOte LEgei auTOIS, PeRIluPOS [4036] es-tin hepsuCHE mou,
Then says he to them, My :soul is exceeding sorrowful,
HEos thaNAtou: MEIna-te HOde, kai gre-goREIte [1127]met' eMOU.
unto death: abide here, and watch with me.
d. 26:39 A PRAYER UNTO DEATH
kai pro-elTHON miKRON, Epe-sen ePI PROso-pon [4383]auTOU, pro-seuCHOme-nos,
And he went forward a little, andfell on his face, praying,
kai LEgon, PAter mou, ei du-naTON es-tin, pa-relTHAtoap' eMOU to poTEri-on [4221]TOUto:
and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this :cup pass from me:
plen, ouch hos eGOTHElo, all' hos SU.
nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.
e. 26:40 QUESTION
kai ERche-tai pros tous ma-theTAS, kai heuRIskei auTOUS kaTHEUdon-tas [2518], kai LEgei to PEtro,
And he comes unto the disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to :Peter,
HOUtos ouk isCHUsa-te [2480]MIan HOran [5610]gre-goREsai [1127]met' eMOU?
Did you have no strength to watch with me one hour?
f. 26:41 WHY THE THREE NEED TO PRAY
gre-goREIte kai proSEUches-the, HIna meeiSELthe-te eis pei-rasMON [3986]:
Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation:
to men PNEUma PROthu-ma [4289], he de sarx [4561]as-theNES [772].
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
g. 26:42 A SECOND PRAYER UNTO DEATH
PAlin ek deuTErou a-pelTHON, proSEUxa-to, LEgon,
And again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying,
PAter mou, ei ou DUna-tai TOUto pa-relTHEIN eAN me auTO PIo, ge-neTHEto[1096]to THEleMA sou.
My Father, if this cannot pass except I drink it, your :will be done.
h. 26:43 DISCIPLES AGAIN SLEEPING
kai elTHON PAlin HEUren auTOUS kaTHEUdon-tas,
And he came again andfound them sleeping,
Esan gar auTON hoi oph-thalMOI be-ba-reMEnoi [916].
for their :eyes were heavy.
i. 26:44 And he left them again andwent away, andprayed a third time, saying the same word again.
kai aPHEIS auTOUS PAlin a-pelTproSEUxa-to ek TRItou, ton auTON LOgon eiPON PAlin.
j. 26:45 NOTHING MORE DISCIPLES CAN DO
TOte ERche-tai pros tous ma-theTAS, kai LEgei auTOIS,
Then he comes unto the disciples, and says to them,
KaTHEUde-te loiPON [3063], kai a-naPAUes-the [373]: iDOU, EGgi-ken [1448]he HOra [5610],
Sleep on now, and rest: lo, the hour is at hand,
kai ho huiOS tou anTHROpou pa-raDIdo-tai [3860]eis CHEIras ha-mar-toLON.
and the Son of :man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.
k. 26:46 Arise, let us be going: lo, he is at hand that delivers me up.
eGEIres-the, Ago-men: I-DOU, EGgi-ken ho pa-ra-diDOUS [3860]me.
2. 26:47-56 BETRAYAL - PETER'S DEFENSE - THE FLIGHT OF ALL
a. 26:47 JUDAS APPEARS
Kai Eti auTOU laLOUNtos, iDOU, IOUdas, heis ton DOde-ka, ELthen,
And while he yet spoke, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came,
kai met' auTOU OCHlos poLUS [4193] meTA ma-chaiRON [3162] kai XUlon [3586],
and with him a great crowd with swords and staves,
aPO ton ar-chi-eREon kai pres-buTEron tou laOU.
from the chief priests and elders of the people.
b. 26:48 THE SIGN ARRANGED BY JUDAS
ho de pa-ra-diDOUS auTON Edo-ken auTOIS seMEIon [4592], LEgon,
Now who delivered him up gave them a sign, saying,
Hon an phiLEso [5368], auTOS es-tin: kraTEsa-te [2902] auTON.
Whoever I shall kiss, HE itis: take him.
c. 26:49 And straightway he came to :Jesus, andsaid, Hail, Rabbi; and kissed him much.
kai euTHEos pro-selTHON to IeSOU, EIpen, CHAIre [5463], 'rabBEI; kai ka-tePHIle-sen [2705]auTON.
d. 26:50a And :Jesus said to him, Friend, dofor what you are come.
ho de IeSOUS EIpen auTO, HeTAIre [2083], eph' ho PArei.
e. 26:50b Then they came andlaid :hands on :Jesus, and took him.
TOte pro-selTHONtes ePEba-lon [1911]tas CHEIras ePI ton IeSOUN, kai eKRAte-san [1614]auTON.
f. 26:51 PETER'S REACTION
kai iDOU, heis ton meTA IeSOU ekTEInas [1614] ten CHEIra,
And lo, one of those with Jesus stretched out his:hand,
aPESpa-sen [645] ten MAchai-ran [3162] auTOU, kai paTAxas [3960] ton DOUlon
anddrew his :sword, and struck the bondman
tou ar-chi-eREos, aPHEIlen [851] auTOU to oTIon [5621].
of the high priest, andstruck off his :ear.
g. 26:52 JESUS CORRECTS PETER
TOte LEgei auTO ho IeSOUS, A-POstrePSON [654] ten MAchaiRAN sou eis ton TOpon auTES:
Then says :Jesus to him, Turn back your :sword into its :place:
PANtes gar hoi laBONtes MAchai-ran en maCHAIra a-poLOUNtai [622].
for all that take thesword shall perish by thesword.
h. 26:53 WHAT JESUS MIGHT HAVE DONE
edoKEIS HOti ou DUna-mai pa-ra-kaLEsai [3870]ton paTEra mou, kai
Or do you not think that I could beseech my :Father, and he shall
pa-raSTEsei [3936] moi ARti PLEIo [4119] DOde-ka le-giOnas agGElon [32]?
even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
i. 26:54 How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
pos oun ple-roTHOsin [4137]hai graPHAI [1124], HOti HOUtos dei geNESthai?
j. 26:55a JESUS QUESTIONS THE CROWDS
en eKEIne te HOra [5610] EIpen ho IeSOUS tois OCHlois, Hos ePI leSTEN [3027]
In that :hour said :Jesus to the crowds, Are you come out
eXELtha-te meTA ma-chaiRON kai XUlon sul-laBEIN me?
as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me?
k. 26:55b I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you took me not.
kath' heMEran en tohi-eROe-ka-theZOmen diDAskon, kai ouk e-kraTEsaTE me.
l. 26:56a But all this is come, that the scriptures of the prophets be fulfilled.
TOUto de HOlon GEgo-nen, HIna ple-roTHOsin [4137]hai graPHAI ton pro-pheTON [4396].
m. 26:56b Then all the disciples left him, andfled.
TOte hoi ma-theTAI PANtes aPHENtes auTON, Ephu-gon [5343].
NOTE: 26:36-46 - We see Jesus here as trulySon of :man as well as Son of God. As Son of :man He is facing a death on our behalf so terrible, that in His humanity He found it almost impossible to go through with it. Thisis a death not envisaged or understood by Mel Gibson in his “The Passion of the Christ.” This is not a merephysical death, but a death of the spirit, the second death. In Isaiah 53:9, the Hebrew literally reads, “And he made his grave with the rich in his deaths.” Here “Death” is plural, for Jesus died twice. First he died spiritually when God placed upon Him the sins of the complete Adamic race. When He becamesin, the world went dark; the Father turned His face from His Son - and the Son cried out, “My God, My God, Why have you forsaken Me?” No other human being except Jesus the sinless Son of :man and Son of God will evergo through what Hewent through for us. He literally died in His spirit at that point. Cursedis every man that hangs on a Tree - the Cross!.
Following His spiritual death on our behalf, He then died a physical death, as portrayed by Mel Gibson. His Resurrection was a double Resurrection. He rose not only physically - but spirituallyalso as the First Fruits of a New Creation. We are joined to Him as the Headof the One New Man composed of Jew and Gentile.
It was the horror He faced as the sinlessSon of man about to become sinfor us. He took our sin, and exchanged it for His righteousness and spiritual life. You say, “I can't understand this!” Maybe none of us can or ever will - but - we can allexperience it if we will. 2 Corinthians 5:17 is a statement of the experience. “So that if any isin Christ, he isa new creation: the old are passed away; lo, they are become new!” Mrs. Maria Woodworth-Etter called thisa bright conversion. Again, we canexperience it - but we may never fully understand it. E. W. Kenyon is one of the fewwho understood the significance of Jesus' “two deaths” suffered on the cross as laid out in Isaiah 53:9.
It was because of what He was about to face on the Cross in being made sin on our behalf, that Jesus desired the 3 disciples to pray in fellowship for Him, as He went apart, sweating great drops as of blood in His agony, just before Judas betrayed Him
Jesus cameto die for us. The Book of Hebrews makes this abundantly clear. It was the Father's will. Angels came and strengthened Him in Gethsemane, so that He could go through with the task He had come to fulfill. Every time we take the Lord's Supper, we should rememberHis deaths, plural, till He comes!
What Judas did in delivering Jesus to His enemies was horrible. But the Father had Jesus choose Judas as one of the 12, fully knowing exactly what was going to happen. It hadto happen. Jesus said, “Did not I choose you 12, and one of you is a devil?”
After Jesus was takenin the Garden - then all the remaining 11 disciples fled.
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