Cornelius a Lapide

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying O My Father, if this cup may not pass away unless I drink it. Thy will be done. S. Mark says that He used the same words as before. But S. Matthew omitted the first part of the prayer as without efficacy or meaning, and in order to insist on the latter part in which the whole force of the passage consists, and set it CHRIST’S THREEFOLD PRAYER. 21 1 forth for our imitation. For Christ absolutely wished and prayed to drink the cup of His Passion, which was decreed and destined for Him by the will of God. For He plainly and expressly asked that the will of God might be fulfilled in Him in and through all things