Mark 14:36
He said, “O my Father, because you are able to do everything, rescue me so that I do not have to suffer now [MTY]! But do not do what I want. Instead, do what you want!”
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Genesis 18:14I am Yahweh! ◄Is there anything too difficult for me?/There is nothing too difficult for me!► [RHQ] I will return about this time next year in the springtime, and Sarah will have an infant son.”
Jeremiah 32:27“I am Yahweh, the God who rules all the people in the world. There is absolutely nothing [RHQ] that is too difficult for me to do.
Matthew 26:39After going a little further, he threw himself face down on the ground. He prayed, “My Father, if it is possible [MTY], do not make me have to endure the suffering that is coming now. But do not do as I want. Instead, do as you want!”
Mark 10:39They said to him, “ Yes, we are able to do that!” Then Jesus said to them, “ It is true that you will endure suffering [MTY] like I will suffer, and you will endure being killed as I will be killed {people killing you as they will kill me}.
John 4:34Jesus said to us, “Doing what my Father who sent me wants me to do and finishing the work he gave me to do is ◄ what sustains me/like my food► [MET].
John 6:38When I came down from heaven, it was not to do what I want. Instead, I came to do what ◄ God/my Father►, who sent me, wants.
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 →