So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words.
Again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Now the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.
Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me,