Λουκᾶν 22:43

Greek Modern Translation

Εφανη δε εις αυτον αγγελος απ' ουρανου ενισχυων αυτον.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
ωφθη δε αυτω αγγελος απ ουρανου ενισχυων αυτον

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
⸂ὤφθη δὲ αὐτῷ ἄγγελος ⸀ἀπ οὐρανοῦ ἐνισχύων αὐτόν.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
ὤφθη δὲ αὐτῷ ἄγγελος ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ ἐνισχύων αὐτόν.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
ωφθη δε αυτω αγγελος απ ουρανου ενισχυων αυτον

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
[[ωφθη δε αυτω αγγελορ απο του ουρανου ενισχυων αυτον

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an: Luke 4:10, Luke 4:11, Psalms 91:11, Psalms 91:12, Matthew 4:6, Matthew 4:11, Matthew 26:53, 1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 1:6, Hebrews 1:14

strengthening: Luke 22:32, Deuteronomy 3:28, Job 4:3, Job 4:4, Daniel 10:16-19, Daniel 11:1, Acts 18:23, Hebrews 2:17

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:16 - strengthened Isaiah 35:3 - General Daniel 10:18 - he John 1:51 - and the 2 Corinthians 13:4 - he was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,.... Whether this was Michael the archangel, as some have conjectured, or Gabriel, or what particular angel, is not for us to know, nor is it of any importance: it is certain, it was a good angel: "an angel of God", as the Ethiopic version reads; since he came from heaven, and was one of the angels of heaven, sent by God on this occasion; and it is clear also, that he was in a visible form, and was seen by Christ, since he is said to appear to him:

strengthening him; under his present distress, against the terrors of Satan, and the fears of death, by assuring him of the divine favour, as man, and of the fulfilment of the promises to him to stand by him, assist, strengthen, and carry him through what was before him; and by observing to him the glory and honour he should be crowned with, after his sufferings and death, find the complete salvation of his people, which would be obtained hereby, and which was the joy set before him; and which animated him, as man, to bear the cross, and despise the shame with a brave and heroic Spirit. Now, though God the Father could have strengthened the human nature of Christ, without making use of an angel; and Christ could have strengthened it himself, by his divine nature, to which it was united; but the human nature was to be brought into so low a condition, and to be left to itself, as to stand in need of the assistance of an angel: and this shows not only the ministration of angels to Christ, as man, but that he was at this present time made a little lower than the angels, who was the Creator and Lord of them; as he afterwards more apparently was, through the sufferings of death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Luke 22:43

Strengthening him - His human nature, to sustain the great burden that was upon his soul. Some have supposed from this that he was not divine as well as human; for if he was “God,” how could an angel give any strength or comfort? and why did not the divine nature “alone” sustain the human? But the fact that he was “divine” does not affect the case at all. It might be asked with the same propriety, If he was, as all admit, the friend of God, and beloved of God, and holy, why, if he was a mere man, did not “God” sustain him alone, without an angel’s intervening? But the objection in neither case would have any force. The “man, Christ Jesus,” was suffering. His human nature was in agony, and it is the “manner” of God to sustain the afflicted by the intervention of others; nor was there any more “unfitness” in sustaining the human nature of his Son in this manner than any other sufferer.

Luke 22:44

In an agony - See this verse explained in the notes at Matthew 26:42-44.

Luke 22:45

Sleeping for sorrow - On account of the greatness of their sorrow. See the notes at Matthew 26:40.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 43. There appeared an angel - from heaven — It was as necessary that the fullest evidence should be given, not only of our Lord's Divinity, but also of his humanity: his miracles sufficiently attested the former; his hunger, weariness, and agony in the garden, as well as his death and burial, were proofs of the latter. As man, he needs the assistance of an angel to support his body, worn down by fatigue and suffering. Luke 22:44.