John Trapp on Matthew 26:36

Verse 36. Unto a place, called Gethseman] By mount Olivet stood this garden: and here he began his passion, as well to expiate that first sinne committed in a garden, as to sanctifie unto us our repasts and recreations. Here, after our Saviour had prayed himself into an agony (to teach us to strive also in prayer [non-Latin text not transcribed] as for life, and to struggle even to an agony as the word signifieth,Joh. 18. 2. Colos. 4. 12.) he was taken quasi ex condicto, and led into the city thorow the sheep-gate (so called of the multitude of sheep driven in by it to be offered in the Temple,) to be sacrificed, as a lamb [illegible: 2 letters]defiled and without spot. Sit ye here while I go and pray yonder] It may be lawfull therefore in some cases to pray secretly, in the presence or with the privity of others, so there be some good use of them.