...sleeping, and saith nnto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou ? couldest not thou watch one hour ? Watch ye and pray, lest -ye enter into temptation : the spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak. And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words. And when he returned, he found them asleep...

...Cecil, wife of the honourable H. Cecil, heir to the title and estates of the %arl of Exeter. " Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit, truly is willing : but the flesh is weak." Mark 14. Chap. v. 38. This case was tried at Guildhall, June 20th, 1790, and 10001. damages laid upon...

...compassionate Redeemer, suffers me not to sleep the sleep of death, but saith, as in ver. 38, " Watch ye, and pray, lest ye enter into temptation : the Spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." "And again, He went away, and prayed, and spake the same words " ver. 39). Look again, and ponder over...

...emphatic manner, said, " Simon, sleepest thou ! what, couldest thou not watch with me one hour ? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation ; the spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." He went away again, and on his return foundthem in the same condition ; on which he said, ** Sleep...

...come upon our minds, and that we may fancy him saying to us, as he did to his sleeping disciples, " Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation : the spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak ?" May we not hope that, when we are unforgiving, those words may sound in our ears, in which he stayed...

...come upon our minds, and that we may fancy him saying to us, as he did to his sleeping disciples, «' Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation : the spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak ?" May we not hope that, when we are unforgiving, those words may sound in our ears, in which he stayed...

...exertion, viz. the weakness of the flesh. Our Saviour had this in view when he said to his disciples, " Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation ; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak." And the apostle had a deep sense of the power of temptation over him,...

...conclusion, and that is a practical one. No amplification could increase its deep and vital importance: "Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." The Hebrew language has lain now for two thousand years mute and incapable of utterance. The " Masoretical...

...them. " Simon, sleepest thou ? Couldest not thou watch one hour ? " And then to all alike, " Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." And again, when Peter drew his sword and smote one of them who came out against JESUS, the command,...

...and sorrow. " Could ye not," said he, " watch with me one hour ? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." Again he retired, and prostrated himself, and, "with strong crying and tears," presented the same supplication....