Matthew 26:43
Good News Translation
He returned once more and found the disciples asleep; they could not keep their eyes open.

New Revised Standard Version
Again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus came back and found them sleeping again. They simply could not keep their eyes open.

New American Bible
Then he returned once more and found them asleep, for they could not keep their eyes open.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he cometh again and findeth them sleeping: for their eyes were heavy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he cometh again and findeth them sleeping: for their eyes were heavy.

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Proverbs 23:34 And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.

Jonah 1:6 And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried to their god: and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: and Jonah went down into the inner part of the ship, and fell into a deep sleep.

Luke 9:32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep. And waking, they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him.

Acts 20:9 And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window, being oppressed with a deep sleep (as Paul was long preaching), by occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down and was taken up dead.

Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober. . . .

Context
Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
42Again the second time, he went and prayed, saying: My Father, if this chalice may not pass away, but I must drink it, thy will be done. 43And he cometh again and findeth them sleeping: for their eyes were heavy. 44And leaving them, he went again: and he prayed the third time, saying the selfsame word.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:42
Again the second time, he went and prayed, saying: My Father, if this chalice may not pass away, but I must drink it, thy will be done.

Matthew 26:44
And leaving them, he went again: and he prayed the third time, saying the selfsame word.

Luke 9:32
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep. And waking, they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him.

Matthew 26:42
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