Matthew 26:38
New International Version
Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

New Living Translation
He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

English Standard Version
Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”

Berean Standard Bible
Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

Berean Literal Bible
Then He says to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch with Me."

King James Bible
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

New King James Version
Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

New American Standard Bible
Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”

NASB 1995
Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”

NASB 1977
Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”

Amplified Bible
Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, so that I am almost dying of sorrow. Stay here and stay awake and keep watch with Me.”

Christian Standard Bible
He said to them, “I am deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow—to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with Me.”

American Standard Version
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he said to them, “My soul has sorrow even to death; wait for me here and keep watch 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."

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

English Revised Version
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then he said to them, "My anguish is so great that I feel as if I'm dying. Wait here, and stay awake with me."

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."

International Standard Version
Then he told them, "I'm so deeply grieved that I feel I'm about to die. Wait here and stay awake with me."

Literal Standard Version
then He says to them, “Exceedingly sorrowful is My soul—to death; abide here, and watch with Me.”

Majority Standard Bible
Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

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

NET Bible
Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake 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.”

New Heart English Bible
Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."

Webster's Bible Translation
Then saith he to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

Weymouth New Testament
and He said to them, "My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me."

World English Bible
Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me.”

Young's Literal Translation
then saith he to them, 'Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul -- unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.'

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Context
Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
37He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.” 39Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”…

Cross References
Psalm 42:5
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Matthew 26:40
Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. "Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?" He asked Peter.

Matthew 26:41
"Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak."

Mark 14:34
Then He said to them, "My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch."

John 12:27
Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.


Treasury of Scripture

Then said he to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: tarry you here, and watch with me.

My.

Job 6:2-4
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! …

Psalm 88:1-7,14-16
A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: …

Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

tarry.

Matthew 26:40
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?

Matthew 25:13
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

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Matthew 26
1. Jesus foretells his own death.
3. The rulers conspire against him.
6. The woman anoints his feet.
14. Judas bargains to betray him.
17. Jesus eats the Passover;
26. institutes his holy supper;
30. foretells the desertion of his disciples, and Peter's denial;
36. prays in the garden;
47. and being betrayed by a kiss,
57. is carried to Caiaphas,
69. and denied by Peter.














(38) Then cometh Jesus . . .--In the interval between Matthew 26:35-36, we have probably to place the discourses in John 15 (the reference to the vine, probably suggested by one which was putting forth its leaves in the early spring), John 16, and the great prayer of intercession in John 17. As St. John alone has recorded them, it is probable that he alone entered into their meaning, while others either did not hear them, or listened to them as above their reach, and asked their child-like questions (John 16:18-19; John 16:29-30). St. Luke records what we may look on as the germ of the great intercession, in our Lord's words to Peter, "I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not" (Luke 22:32).

A place called Gethsemane.--The word means "oil-press," and was obviously connected with the culture of the trees from which the Mount took its name. St. John's description implies that it was but a little way beyond the brook Kidron (John 18:1), on the lower western slope of the mount. There was, a garden (or rather, orchard) there which was the wonted resort of our Lord and the disciples when they sought retirement. The olive-trees now growing in the place shown as Gethsemane, venerable as their age is, can hardly have been those that then grew there, as Josephus expressly records that Titus ordered all the trees in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem to be cut down, and the Tenth Legion was actually encamped on the Mount of Olives (Jos. Wars, v. 2, ? 3). They probably represent the devotion of pilgrims of the fourth or some later century, who replanted the hallowed site. . . .

Verse 38. - My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death (Jonah 4:9). Christ speaks here of the mental agony which he is enduring; he bides not from the faithful three that which weighs upon his heart, so excessive a strain that human nature must fail to endure it. We cannot gauge the anguish; we may suggest some of the causes of this sorrow. It was not merely the thought of bodily pain, though that would be long and excessive; there were other elements which made his sorrow like to no other sorrow. He thought of all the circumstances that led to his Passion; all that would accompany it; all that would succeed it - the malice and perversity of the Jews, the grievous wickedness that brought about his death, the treachery of Judas, the desertion of his friends, the denial of Peter, his unjust condemnation at the hands of the rulers of the chosen nation, the pusillanimity of Pilate, the guilt of the actors in the tragedy, the wilful iniquity of those whom he came to redeem, the ruin which they brought on themselves, their city and nation - such considerations formed one ingredient in the bitter cup which he had to drain. And then the thought of death was unspeakably terrible to the all-holy Son of God. We men become accustomed to the thought of death. It accompanies us through all our life; it looms before us always. But man was created immortal (Wisd. 2:23), his nature shrinks from the dissolution of soul and body; and to the sinless, unfallen Man this experience was wholly unknown and awful. Here was the incarnate God, the God-Man, submitting himself to the punishment of sin, tasting death forevery man, bearing in his own Person the inexpressible bitterness of this penal humiliation. Added to all this was the incalculable fact that "the Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all." The burden of the sins of all mankind he bore on his sacred shoulders. "Him who knew no sin God made to be sin on our behalf" (2 Corinthians 5:21). What this mysterious imputation, so to speak, involved, we cannot tell; but to a being perfectly pure and holy it must have been anguish unspeakable. Tarry ye here. As ver. 36, "Sit ye here." And watch with me. In his dark hour his human soul yearned for the comfort of a friendly presence; even though these chosen three might not witness the extremity of his agony, their proximity and sympathy and prayers were a support. But he bade them watch for their own sake also. Their great trial was close at hand; they were about to be tempted to deny and forsake him; they could resist only by prayer and watchfulness (ver. 41).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Then
τότε (tote)
Adverb
Strong's 5119: Then, at that time. From ho and hote; the when, i.e. At the time that.

He said
λέγει (legei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

to them,
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

soul
ψυχή (psychē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5590: From psucho; breath, i.e. spirit, abstractly or concretely.

is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

consumed with sorrow
Περίλυπός (Perilypos)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4036: Very sorrowful, greatly grieved. From peri and lupe; grieved all around, i.e. Intensely sad.

to the point
ἕως (heōs)
Preposition
Strong's 2193: A conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until.

of death.
θανάτου (thanatou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2288: Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death.

Stay
μείνατε (meinate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 3306: To remain, abide, stay, wait; with acc: I wait for, await. A primary verb; to stay.

here
ὧδε (hōde)
Adverb
Strong's 5602: From an adverb form of hode; in this same spot, i.e. Here or hither.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

keep watch
γρηγορεῖτε (grēgoreite)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1127: (a) I am awake (in the night), watch, (b) I am watchful, on the alert, vigilant. From egeiro; to keep awake, i.e. Watch.

with
μετ’ (met’)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

Me.”
ἐμοῦ (emou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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