In the first place, then, we are to consider their sin. While their Lord, their Friend, their Savior was wrestling in an agony of sorrow and of prayer, they slumbered and slept. "When He came to the disciples, He found them sleeping." But in this as in most similar cases, the chief matter of interest and especially, of general practical.application, lies, not singly in the sin itself, but very much in thecircumstances by which it was committed, and the aggravations bywhich it was characterized.