Matthew 26:24

26:24 The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

Matthew 26:39

26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, ¹  “My Father, if possible, ²  let this cup ³  pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Matthew 26:42

26:42 He went away a second time and prayed, ⁴  “My Father, if this cup ⁵  cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”

Matthew 26:54

26:54 How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

Matthew 26:56

26:56 But this has happened so that ⁶  the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

[26:39]  ¹ tn Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[26:39]  ² tn Grk “if it is possible.”

[26:39]  ³ sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.

[26:42]  ¹ tn Grk “saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[26:42]  ² tn Grk “this”; the referent (the cup) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:56]  ¹ tn Grk “But so that”; the verb “has happened” is implied.