Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Matthew 26:36-46
Matthew GETHSEMANE, THE OIL-PRESS Mat_26:36 - Mat_26:46 . One shrinks from touching this incomparable picture of unexampled sorrow, for fear lest one’s finger-marks should stain it. There is no place here for picturesque description, which tries to mend the gospel stories by dressing them in to-day’s fashions, nor for theological systematisers and analysers of the sort that would ‘botanise upon their mother’s grave.’ We must put off our shoes, and feel that we stand on holy ground. Though... read more
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Matthew 26:31-46
FOURTH SECTIONPROMISES TO THE DISCIPLES; AND CHRIST IN GETHSEMANE26:31–46(Mark 14:27-42; Luke 22:31-46; John 13:36 to John 18:1)31Then [in going out to the Mount of Olives] saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall [will] be offended because of me [at me] this night: for it is written, I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad (Zechariah 13:7). 32But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. 33Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men... read more