Matthew 26:39
Context26:39 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.”
Mark 14:35
Context14:35 Going a little farther, he threw himself to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour would pass from him.
[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.