JMNT(i)
42 saying, "O Father, if You continue purposing (willing; intending) [
it]
, at once bear along (or: carry aside)
this, the cup, away from Me. Yet more than that, not My will or desire, but to the contrary, let Yours continue of itself progressing into being (or: let Yours keep on happening to itself, and from itself come to be, then progressively take place for itself)!
" [note: vss. 43 & 44 are omitted in
p75, Aleph1, A, B, N, T, W, 579, 1071*, and others, as well as writings by Marcion, Clement, Origen, Athanasius, Ambrose, Cyril John-Damascus, a Georgian MS, and others; Aleph*, D, L, later MSS, various church Fathers, and others include them; Griesbach and Nestle-Aland bracket them; UBS footnotes them in the apparatus]
43 Now an agent from the atmosphere (or: a messenger fromheaven)
was seen by Him, continuously strengthening Him.
44 Then, coming to be within the midst of great inner tension and conflict (or: agony and anxiety),
He continued praying more intensely and more stretched out, and so His sweat came to be as it were large drops and clots of blood, steadily dropping down upon the ground.