Could You Not Watch One Hour With Me?

In the first place, it was a just reproach. Before Christ entered the garden of olives, He had told the apostles in express words that now the hour of temptation had arrived, that now there was danger that they leave Him and deny the faith. Again, later, He gave to the three(Peter, James and John) the distinct command to watch and pray during His absence in order to overcome by these means the impending temptation. They did neither one nor the other. They slept. They knew themselves that they deserved the reproach, for they had no excuse to offer.

However, we should not be too severe with the apostles; many Christians are far more reprehensible. They spend entire nights, not merely in work and affairs of business, but in dangerous pleasures and amusements, in satisfaction of sensual lusts, infact in anything which leads to hell. But at evening prayers or sermons, they are asleep.

An excerpt from “Passion of Jesus and its hidden meaning” by Fr. James Groenings