Matius 26:39
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
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Study Note
The Gethsemane prayer — 'O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt' — is the most transparent window into Christ's interior spiritual struggle in all four Gospels. The 'cup' metaphor draws on the Old Testament image of the cup of divine wrath poured out on sinners (Psalm 75:8; Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 25:15), indicating Jesus understood his death as absorbing God's judgment. The subordination of his will to the Father's ('not as I will') is crucial for Christology: it affirms both genuine human reluctance and perfect obedience, the foundation of the doctrine of two wills (dyothelitism) affirmed at Constantinople III (681 AD). Hebrews 5:7-9 reads this agony as the source of Jesus' qualified empathy with human suffering.
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And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'
And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
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