Matthew 26:38
Good News Translation
and he said to them, "The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me. Stay here and keep watch with me."

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.”

Contemporary English Version
and he said to them, "I am so sad that I feel as if I am dying. Stay here and keep awake with me."

New American Bible
Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me.

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Job 6:2-4 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Psalm 88:1-7,14-16 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. [2] O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee. . . .

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Isaiah 53:3,10 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . .

Romans 8:32 He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree).

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

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Matthew 26:40 And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he saith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me?

Matthew 25:13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

Context
Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
37And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. 38Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me. 39And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.…
Cross References
Psalm 42:5
Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance,

Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.

Matthew 26:40
And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he saith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me?

Matthew 26:41
Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Mark 14:34
And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.

John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

Matthew 26:37
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