Mark 14:34
Good News Translation
and he said to them, "The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me. Stay here and keep watch."

New Revised Standard Version
And he said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake.”

Contemporary English Version
told them, "I am so sad that I feel as if I am dying. Stay here and keep awake with me."

New American Bible
Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.

My soul.

Isaiah 53:3,4,12 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . .

Lamentations 1:12 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.

John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

and watch.

Mark 14:37,38 And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour? . . .

Mark 13:35-37 Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning): . . .

Ephesians 6:18,19 By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints: . . .

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Context
Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
33And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. 34And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch. 35And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from him.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:38
Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me.

John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

Mark 14:33
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