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Mark 14:39

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Saying the same words. The repetition of the same words shows his fixed determination to submit to the will of his heavenly Father. Although the human nature at first asserted itself in the prayer that the cup might pass from him; yet ultimately the human will yielded to the Divine.

He desired to drink this cup of bitterness appointed for him by the will of God; for his supreme desire was that the will of God might be done.

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