Mat 26:45 Sleep on now, and take [your] rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
These are the words of a hero. They could have been written by Shakespeare. This is so dramatic: the hero knowing that his death is coming but bidding his friends to sleep on. I almost hate to get into any other meaning because the drama is so perfect.
Before this, Christ had found his disciples asleep and gone back to praying as before without waking them. The text says, "praying as before" indicating that for the third time he expressed his regret at dying (this time in private) but his acceptance of the Father's will.
Though a lot of the vocabulary here is unique and interesting, I find that I don't want to go into it because the drama of this statement is everything.
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