Mat 26:39 | NETfull | STEP | Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Matthew 26:39

39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, ^{▼▼ Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legōn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.} “My Father, if possible, ^{▼▼ Grk “if it is possible.”} let this cup ^{▼▼ 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.} pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”