Mark 14:38
Be wakeful and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit is willing and ready, but the body is infirm.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 again, prayed, and said that word.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Be wakeful therefore, because ye know not in what hour cometh your Lord.
Matthew 26:41Be watchful and pray, that you enter not into temptation. The spirit is ready, but the body is infirm.
Luke 21:36Be therefore wakeful at all time, and pray that you may be worthy to escape from those things that are about to be, and that you may stand before the Son of man.
Luke 22:46And he said to them, Why sleep you? arise and pray, that you enter not into temptation.
1 Corinthians 16:13WATCH, and stand in the faith; be manful and be strong.
Philippians 2:12WHEREFORE, my beloved, as you have all time obeyed, not while I am near you only, but now that I am far from you, the more with fear and trembling work the work of your salvation;
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 →