And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.

And going out, he went, according to his custom, to the mount of Olives. And his disciples also followed him.

And going forth he went according to his custom to the mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him.

And having gone forth, he went on, according to custom, to the mount of the Olives, and his disciples also followed him,

On going out, He proceeded as usual to the Mount of Olives, and His disciples followed Him.

And he came out, and went, as his way was, to the Mountain of Olives, and the disciples went with him.

And departing, he went out, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives. And his disciples also followed him.

Jesus then went out, and made his way as usual to the Mount of Olives, followed by his disciples.

See the Matthew. 26:30-46 notes; Mark 14:26-42 notes.

And he came out,.... That is, "Christ", as the Persic version; or the "Lord Jesus", as the Ethiopic version expresses; he came out of the guestchamber, or upper room, and out of the house where he had been keeping the passover with his disciples; and he came out of the city of Jerusalem, to begin his sorrows and sufferings without the camp, where he was to end them:
and went, as he was wont, to the Mount of Olives. This had been his practice and custom for several nights past, as appears from Luke 21:37. Hence Judas knew the place he now went to, and could direct the soldiers and officers where to go, and apprehend him; and this shows the willingness of Christ to be taken, in order to suffer and die; otherwise he would have gone to another place, and not this. The Ethiopic version adds, "to pray", as he did; and, as very likely he was used; for he would sometimes continue a whole night in prayer on a mountain; see Luke 6:12
and his disciples also followed him; eleven of them, for Judas was now gone to the chief priests to inform them where Christ was going, that they might seize him: but the other disciples followed him, which was so ordered, that they might be witnesses of his sorrows and agonies in the garden, and of his being betrayed by Judas, and apprehended by the Jews; though upon this they forsook him and fled.

Every description which the evangelists give of the state of mind in which our Lord entered upon this conflict, proves the tremendous nature of the assault, and the perfect foreknowledge of its terrors possessed by the meek and lowly Jesus. Here are three things not in the other evangelists. 1. When Christ was in his agony, there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. It was a part of his humiliation that he was thus strengthened by a ministering spirit. 2. Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Prayer, though never out of season, is in a special manner seasonable when we are in an agony. 3. In this agony his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down. This showed the travail of his soul. We should pray also to be enabled to resist unto the shedding of our blood, striving against sin, if ever called to it. When next you dwell in imagination upon the delights of some favourite sin, think of its effects as you behold them here! See its fearful effects in the garden of Gethsemane, and desire, by the help of God, deeply to hate and to forsake that enemy, to ransom sinners from whom the Redeemer prayed, agonized, and bled.

AGONY IN THE GARDEN. (Luke 22:39-46)
as . . . wont--(See John 18:2).

He went . . . unto the mount of Olives. See notes on Matthew 26:36-46, for the Agony in Gethsemane. Compare Mark 14:32-42. Luke alone mentions that his sweat became as great drops of blood a fact that portrays, as language could not, the agony of our Lord's struggle.

Matthew 26:30.