Luke 22:39-46

Living Bible

³⁹ Then, accompanied by the disciples, he left the upstairs room and went as usual to the Mount of Olives. ⁴⁰ There he told them, “Pray God that you will not be overcome by temptation.”^[a]

^41-42 He walked away, perhaps a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed this prayer: “Father, if you are willing, please take away this cup of horror from me. But I want your will, not mine.” ⁴³ Then an angel from heaven appeared and strengthened him, ⁴⁴ for he was in such agony of spirit that he broke into a sweat of blood, with great drops falling to the ground as he prayed more and more earnestly. ⁴⁵ At last he stood up again and returned to the disciples—only to find them asleep, exhausted from grief.

⁴⁶ “Asleep!” he said. “Get up! Pray God that you will not fall when you are tempted.”