<p>14:37- see on Mk. 14:72.</p><p><i>And he returned and found them sleeping, and said to Peter: Simon, why do you sleep?- &quot;</i>Comes&hellip; and finds&quot; are the very words used of the Lord&rsquo;s coming in judgment to &lsquo;find&rsquo; the state of His people (Mt. 21:19; 24:46 &ldquo;whom his Lord when He&nbsp;<i>comes</i>&nbsp;shall&nbsp;<i>find</i>&nbsp;so doing&rdquo;; Lk. 18:8 &ldquo;When the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith&hellip;?&rdquo;). And His &lsquo;coming&rsquo; to the disciples found them asleep and unprepared. This was exactly the picture of Mk. 13:36 (and Lk. 12:37), using the same Greek words: &ldquo;Watch&hellip; lest coming suddenly, He find you sleeping&rdquo;. We can be condemned in this life, as Peter was when he denied his Lord, and yet be saved out of it by repentance.</p><p>There are good reasons for thinking that Mark&rsquo;s Gospel record is actually Peter&rsquo;s; and in his preaching of the Gospel he makes ample reference to his own failures he contains the most detailed account of the denials of all the Gospels and to the misunderstanding of his fellows. Both Matthew and Luke record that the Lord asked the three disciples &lsquo;Why are you plural sleeping?&rsquo; (Mt. 26:40). It is only Mark who says that the Lord asked this of Peter personally, in the singular (Mk. 14:37). And compare Matthew&rsquo;s &ldquo;Could you plural not watch with me?&rdquo; with Mk. 14:37 to Peter: &ldquo;Could you not singular watch?&rdquo;.</p><p><i>Could you not watch one hour?</i>- Peter later urged his converts to &ldquo;be watchful&rdquo; (1 Pet. 5:8 RV), watching unto prayer as the end approaches (1 Pet. 4:7), as Peter had&nbsp;<i>not</i>&nbsp;been watchful in the garden and had earned the Lord&rsquo;s rebuke for going to sleep praying (Mt. 26:40,41). They were to learn from his mistake. Their watchfulness was to be because the devil was prowling around, seeking whom he could desire (1 Pet. 5:8). This was exactly the case with Peter: Satan desired to have him, he should have prayed for strength but didn&rsquo;t do so sufficiently (Lk. 22:31). He was warning his brethren that they were in exactly the situation he had been in, a few hours before he went into that fateful High Priest&rsquo;s house.&nbsp;Paul was deeply moved by the Gethsemane record: 1 Thess. 5:6,7 = &nbsp;Mt. 26:40,41; Eph. 6:18 = 26:4;1 Acts 22:7= 26:39; 2 Cor. 6:10 = 26:37; 2 Cor. 12:8 = 26:44; Rom. 5:6 = 26:41; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6 = &nbsp;Mk. 14:36.</p>