And he went forward a little,.... About a stone's cast, Lu 22:41,and fell on the ground, and prayed; he fell on his face to the ground, which was a praying posture. One of the Jewish canons concerning it, is this :"worshipping, how is it done?
after a man has lifted up his head; he bows it five times, he sits upon the ground, and "falls upon his face", hura, "to the ground", and supplicates with whatsoever supplication he pleases: worshipping, or bowing, is the stretching out of hands and feet, until a man is found cast upon his face to the ground.'
'See Gill on "Mt 26:39". The supplication Christ made in this posture was,that, it were possible, the hour might pass from him; the time fixed and agreed upon for his sufferings and death; that is, that it might pass without his enduring them, if there was any possibility of excusing him, and of his people's being saved without them;See Gill on "Mt 26:39".
Maimon. Hilch. Tephilla, c. 5. sect.