'And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

Again, a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, 'My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done;'

And having left them, having gone away again, he prayed a third time, saying the same word;

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth [us] always to pray, and not to faint,

Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,