Matthew Chapter 26 verse 41 Holy Bible
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] ready, but the flesh weak.
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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
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watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'
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Matthew 26 : 41 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 41. - Watch (ye) and pray. A summary of Christian duty. Watchfulness sees temptation coming; prayer gives strength to withstand it. The apostles needed the injunction at this moment; for their great trial was close at hand. That ye enter not (in order that ye may not eater) into temptation. The phrase is usually interpreted to mean either to fall into temptation, to be tempted, or to run wilfully into temptation; but it seems to be better, with Grotius, to take it in the sense of succumbing to, falling under, being vanquished by temptation, like ἐμπίπτειν in 1 Timothy 6:9, "immergi et succumbere." That Peter and the rest were now to be tempted was certain (Luke 22:31, 32), and it was too late to deprecate the trial; but it was right and expedient to ask of God grace to withstand in the evil hour. The spirit (πνεῦμα) indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. This was an added motive for vigilance and prayer. The apostles had shown a certain readiness of spirit when they offered to die with Christ (ver. 35); but the flesh, the material and lower nature, represses the higher impulse, checks the will, and prevents it from carrying out that which it is prompted to perform (see the action of these contrariant forces noticed by St. Paul, Romans 7.). "For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things" (Wisd. 9:15). Our Lord at this very time was experiencing and exemplifying the truth of his saying, though in his ease the weakness of the flesh was entirely overmastered by the willing spirit. It is noted that Polycarp quotes this maxim of Christ in his 'Epistle to the Philippians,' ch. 7.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(41) Watch and pray.--The first word is eminently characteristic of our Lord's teaching at this period (Matthew 24:42; Matthew 25:13). It became the watchword of the early disciples (1Corinthians 16:13; Colossians 4:2; 1Thessalonians 5:6; 1Peter 5:8). It left its mark in the history of Christendom in the new names of Gregory, and Vigilius, or Vigilantius, "the watcher." . . .
