KJV ORIGINAL
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
When he finished praying and came back to his disciples, he found them completely knocked out from grief.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Sometimes sorrow is so heavy that sleep is the only escape your body knows.
📚 Historical Context
In the Gospel of Luke, this verse occurs in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, shortly before Jesus' arrest by the religious leaders and Roman authorities. Jesus had withdrawn to pray intensely about the suffering he was about to face, after urging his disciples to stay awake and pray with him. The disciples, exhausted from the emotional weight of Jesus' predictions of his betrayal and death, fell asleep despite his instructions.
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