SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:36
¶ Entonces lleg Jess con ellos a un lugar que se llama Getsemaní, y dice a los discípulos: Sentaos aquí, hasta que vaya allí y ore.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:36
Verse 36. A place called Gethsemane] A garden at the foot of the mount of Olives. The name seems to be formed from hg gath, a press, and ms shemen, oil; probably the place where the produce of the mount of Olives was prepared for use. The garden of the oilpress, or olive-press. Sit ye here] Or, stay in this place, while I go and pray yonder: and employ ye the time as I shall employ it-in watching unto prayer.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 36. Then cometh Jesus with them , etc.] The eleven disciples, unto a place called Gethsemane ; the Syriac version calls it Ghedsiman; the Persic, Ghesmani, so the Arabic; the Vulgate Latin, and the Ethiopic, Gethsemani: in Munsters Hebrew Gospel, and in the Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, it is called a village; and in the Ethiopic version, a village of wine; and in the Syriac and Persic versions, a place. Here, according to an Ethiopic writer, the Virgin Mary was buried by the apostles f1573 . Its etymology is very differently given: some read, and explain it, as if it was ynm yg , a valley of fatness, or of olives, as it is called in Munsters Hebrew Gospel; (see Isaiah 28:1); others as if it was ynmysd yg , a valley of signs, or a very famous valley; so Mount Sinai is called f1574 , yanmys rh , Harsemanai, the mountain of signs: but, to take notice of no more; the true reading and signification of it is, ynm tg , an olive press, or a press for olives: so we read of a chamber in the temple which is called the chamber, aynm tyb , Beth Semania, or Bethsemani, where they put their wine and oil for temple service. It is very probable that at, or near this place, was a very public olive press, where they used to squeeze the olives, for the oil of them, which they gathered in great plenty from off the Mount of Olives; at the foot of which this place was; and a very significant place it was for our Lord to go to at this time, when he was about to tread the wine press of his Fathers wrath, alone, and of the people there were none with him: for it follows, and saith unto the disciples, sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder : perceiving a time of distress was coming upon him, he betakes himself to prayer, an example worthy of our imitation; in the performance of which duty he chose to be retired and solitary, and therefore left eight of his disciples at a certain place, whilst he went to another at some distance, convenient for his purpose; who perhaps might be the weakest of the disciples, and not able to bear the agonies and distress of their Lord and Master.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 36-46 - He who made atonement for the sins of mankind, submitted himself in garden of suffering, to the will of God, from which man had revolted in a garden of pleasure. Christ took with him into that part of the garde where he suffered his agony, only those who had witnessed his glory in his transfiguration. Those are best prepared to suffer with Christ, wh have by faith beheld his glory. The words used denote the most entir dejection, amazement, anguish, and horror of mind; the state of on surrounded with sorrows, overwhelmed with miseries, and almos swallowed up with terror and dismay. He now began to be sorrowful, an never ceased to be so till he said, It is finished. He prayed that, i possible, the cup might pass from him. But he also showed his perfec readiness to bear the load of his sufferings; he was willing to submi to all for our redemption and salvation. According to this example of Christ, we must drink of the bitterest cup which God puts into ou hands; though nature struggle, it must submit. It should be more ou care to get troubles sanctified, and our hearts satisfied under them than to get them taken away. It is well for us that our salvation is in the hand of One who neither slumbers nor sleeps. All are tempted, but we should be much afraid of entering into temptation. To be secure from this, we should watch and pray, and continually look unto the Lor to hold us up that we may be safe. Doubtless our Lord had a clear an full view of the sufferings he was to endure, yet he spoke with the greatest calmness till this time. Christ was a Surety, who undertook to be answerable for our sins. Accordingly he was made sin for us, an suffered for our sins, the Just for the unjust; and Scripture ascribe his heaviest sufferings to the hand of God. He had full knowledge of the infinite evil of sin, and of the immense extent of that guilt for which he was to atone; with awful views of the Divine justice an holiness, and the punishment deserved by the sins of men, such as n tongue can express, or mind conceive. At the same time, Christ suffere being tempted; probably horrible thoughts were suggested by Satan tha tended to gloom and every dreadful conclusion: these would be the mor hard to bear from his perfect holiness. And did the load of impute guilt so weigh down the soul of Him of whom it is said, He upholdet all things by the word of his power? into what misery then must thos sink whose sins are left upon their own heads! How will those escap who neglect so great salvation?
Greek Textus Receptus
τοτε 5119 ADV ερχεται 2064 5736 V-PNI-3S μετ 3326 PREP αυτων 846 P-GPM ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM εις 1519 PREP χωριον 5564 N-ASN λεγομενον 3004 5746 V-PPP-ASN γεθσημανη 1068 N-PRI και 2532 CONJ λεγει 3004 5719 V-PAI-3S τοις 3588 T-DPM μαθηταις 3101 N-DPM καθισατε 2523 5657 V-AAM-2P αυτου 847 ADV εως 2193 CONJ ου 3739 R-GSM απελθων 565 5631 V-2AAP-NSM προσευξωμαι 4336 5667 V-ADS-1S εκει 1563 ADV
Vincent's NT Word Studies
36. Gethsemane. Meaning oil-press. Beyond the brook Kedron, and distant about three-quarters of a mile from the walls of Jerusalem. Dean Stanley says of the olive-trees there: "In spite of all the doubts that can be raised against their antiquity, the eight aged olive-trees, if only by their manifest difference from all others on the mountain, have always struck the most indifferent observers. They will remain, so long as their already protracted life is spared, the most venerable of their race on the surface of the earth. Their gnarled trunks and scanty foilage will always be regarded as the most affecting of the sacred memorials in or about Jerusalem; the most nearly approaching to the everlasting hills themselves in the force with which they carry us back to the events of the gospel history" ("Sinai and Palestine").
Robertson's NT Word Studies
26:36 {Gethsemane} (geqsemanei). The word means oil-press in the Hebrew, or olive vat. The place (ch"rion) was an enclosed plot or estate, "garden," or orchard (kepos). It is called _villa_ in the Vulgate according to #Joh 18:1. It was beyond the torrent Kedron at the foot of the Mount of Olives about three-fourths of a mile from the eastern walls of Jerusalem. There are now eight old olive trees still standing in this enclosure. One cannot say that they are the very trees near which Jesus had his Agony, but they are very old. "They will remain so long as their already prolonged life is spared, the most venerable of their race on the surface of the earth. Their guarded trunks and scanty foliage will always be regarded as the most affecting of the sacred memorials in or about Jerusalem" (Stanley, _Sinai and Palestine_). {Here} (autou), {Yonder} (ekei). Jesus clearly pointed to the place where he would pray. Literally "there."
