MARK 14:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.”
Abba, Father, he said, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will — the Gethsemane prayer is the prayer of perfect submission. Abba (the Aramaic intimate address preserved in its original form) — the same intimate address Paul records as the Spirit's cry in believers (Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6). Everything is possible for you — the omnipotence of the Father is acknowledged even as the prayer asks for a different path. Take this cup from me: the honest expression of the human will's desire to avoid the suffering. Yet not what I will but what you will: the surrender that transforms the prayer from petition to submission.
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