Mark 14:38
Watch, and pray, all of you, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
In Context
39And again he went away, and prayed, saying the same thing.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Watch, therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord is coming.
Matthew 26:41Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is, willing, but the flesh is weak.
Luke 21:36Watch, therefore, and pray at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Luke 22:46And he said to them: Why do you sleep? Arise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.
1 Corinthians 16:13Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, be men, be resolute.
Philippians 2:12So, then, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
Matthew Henry on Mark 14:33-43
The Agony in the Garden. 32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible… Read the whole commentary →