MARK 14:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.”
My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death, he said to them. Stay here and keep watch — the self-report is explicit: overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. The language draws on Psalm 42:5–6 and 43:5 (why, my soul, are you downcast?). The sorrow is not merely anticipatory grief but the full weight of what Jesus is about to bear — the cup of divine judgment for human sin. Stay here and keep watch: the disciples are commissioned to vigilance that they will immediately fail.
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