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MARK 14:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“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.

Church Fathers on Mark 14:36

After that the Lord had foretold the offence of His disciples, the Evangelist gives an account of His prayer, in which He is supposed to have prayed for His disciples; and first describing the place of prayer, he says, 'And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane.'

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation

The place Gethsemane, in which the Lord prayed, is shewn up to this day at the foot of the Mount of Olives. The meaning of Gethsemane is, the valley of the fat, or of fatness. Now when our Lord prays on a mountain, He teaches us that we should when we pray ask for lofty things; but by praying in the valley of fatness, He implies that in our prayer humility and the fatness of interior love must be kept. He also by the valley of humility and the fatness of charity underwent…

Bede · 8th century

In the valley of fatness also, the fat bulls beset Him. There follows, 'And He saith to His disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray;' they are separated from Him in prayer, who are separated in His Passion; for He prays, they sleep, overcome by the sloth of their heart.

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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