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39 (A)He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, “My Father,[a] if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.”

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Footnotes

  1. 26:39 My Father: see note on Mk 14:36. Matthew omits the Aramaic ’abbā’ and adds the qualifier my. This cup: see note on Mk 10:38–40.

17 This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.(A)

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Son though he was,[a] he learned obedience from what he suffered;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:8 Son though he was: two different though not incompatible views of Jesus’ sonship coexist in Hebrews, one associating it with his exaltation, the other with his preexistence. The former view is the older one (cf. Rom 1:4).

while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.(A)

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