LUKE 22:42 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”
Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done — Father: the intimate address. If you are willing, take this cup: the genuine human desire to avoid the passion — the fully human Jesus who does not seek suffering. Yet not my will, but yours be done: the voluntary alignment of the human will with the divine will. The consent of the one who will be betrayed.
Church Fathers on Luke 22:42
As He was to be betrayed by His disciple, our Lord goes to the place of His wonted retirement, where He might most easily be found; as it follows, And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives.
By day He was in Jerusalem, but when the darkness of night came on He held converse with His disciples on the mount of Olives; as it is added, And his disciples followed.
Now after supper our Lord betakes Himself not to idleness or sleep, but to prayer and teaching. Hence it follows, And when he was at the place, he said to them, Pray, &c.
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