45 When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.

Other Translations of Luke 22:45

King James Version

45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

English Standard Version

45 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,

The Message

45 He got up from prayer, went back to the disciples and found them asleep, drugged by grief.

New King James Version

45 When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.

New Living Translation

45 At last he stood up again and returned to the disciples, only to find them asleep, exhausted from grief.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 22:45

Commentary on Luke 22:39-46

(Read Luke 22:39-46)

Every description which the evangelists give of the state of mind in which our Lord entered upon this conflict, proves the tremendous nature of the assault, and the perfect foreknowledge of its terrors possessed by the meek and lowly Jesus. Here are three things not in the other evangelists. 1. When Christ was in his agony, there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. It was a part of his humiliation that he was thus strengthened by a ministering spirit. 2. Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Prayer, though never out of season, is in a special manner seasonable when we are in an agony. 3. In this agony his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down. This showed the travail of his soul. We should pray also to be enabled to resist unto the shedding of our blood, striving against sin, if ever called to it. When next you dwell in imagination upon the delights of some favourite sin, think of its effects as you behold them here! See its fearful effects in the garden of Gethsemane, and desire, by the help of God, deeply to hate and to forsake that enemy, to ransom sinners from whom the Redeemer prayed, agonized, and bled.