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33. παραλαμβάνει. Cf. Mar 5:40, Mar 9:2. At other times we find Jesus seeking solitude for prayer (Mar 1:35, Mar 6:46), but in this great crisis He desires sympathy, and He selects those who will be least likely to misunderstand His intense distress. His selecting these three once more would surprise neither them nor the rest. The view that the “young man” of Mar 14:51 was already in the garden, and was a witness of the Agony, seeing much which the three lost while they were slumbering, cannot be regarded as probable. It was probably the march of the band coming to capture Jesus that woke him and drew him to the spot.
ἤρξατο ἐκθαμβεῖσθαι. The ἤρξατο is not otiose; He has a new experience in emotional suffering—mingled amazement and terror. Cf. Mar 9:15, Mar 16:5-6. Mt., as often, shrinks from attributing purely human feelings to Christ. Under the sanction of his own περίλυπος, he substitutes λυπεῖσθαι.
ἀδημονεῖν. Mt. retains this as covered by περίλυπος. The word is not in LXX., and only once again in N.T., Php 2:26, where see Lightfoot. The derivation is uncertain, but the word seems to imply distress and dismay.