Mark 14:38
Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Indeed the spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak.”
English Majority Text (NT)
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 He went away again and He prayed, saying the same thing.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore, for you do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.
Matthew 26:41Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Indeed the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Luke 21:36Watch therefore, praying always that you may be counted worthy to escape everything that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Luke 22:46Then He said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise up and pray, lest you enter into temptation.” 1 Betrayal and Arrest at Gethsemane
1 Corinthians 16:13Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, be courageous, be strong.
Philippians 2:12So then, my beloved, just 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 →