ἤρξατο, introduces the description of our Lord's awful experience in the garden. ἐκθαμβεῖσθαι, to be amazed; in Mk. only, first in Mark 9:15, where see remarks on its meaning. Though Jesus had long known, and had often with realistic plainness spoken of, what was to befall Him, yet the vivid sense of what it all meant came upon His soul at this hour, as a sudden appalling revelation. The other two words used by Mk. to describe Christ's state of mind (ἀδημονεῖν. περίλυπος) occur in Mt. also.

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