Mark 14:35

And he went forward a little ,.... About a stone's cast, Luke 22:41 ,

and fell on the ground, and prayed ; he fell on his face to the ground, which was a praying posture. One of the Jewish canons concerning it, is this F1 Maimon. Hilch. Tephilla, c. 5. sect. 13. :

"worshipping, how is it done? after a man has lifted up his head; he bows it five times, he sits upon the ground, and "falls upon his face", ארצה , "to the ground", and supplicates with whatsoever supplication he pleases: worshipping, or bowing, is the stretching out of hands and feet, until a man is found cast upon his face to the ground.'

See Gill on Matthew 26:39 . The supplication Christ made in this posture was,

that, it were possible, the hour might pass from him ; the time fixed and agreed upon for his sufferings and death; that is, that it might pass without his enduring them, if there was any possibility of excusing him, and of his people's being saved without them; See Gill on Matthew 26:39 .