The gospels that record the events which allegedly took place between “the last supper” and Jesus' arrest, plainly state that (in spite of all of Jesus' warnings– even the warning that evening to Peter about “this night”-- to the contrary) the disciples slept soundly the whole time Jesus was sweating- blood- and- praying in Gethsemane. Nonetheless, the disciples managed (in their slumber) to carefully record all Jesus and the angels did- and- said while the disciples so slept– if the gospels of the sleepers are to be believed.
[Jesus' disciples so loved slumber: they didn't even attempt to wake Jesus up– when he was presumably sleeping under water in a boat ready to sink– until their own lives were in jeopardy (Luke 8:22 - 24).]
The day after Jesus' “triumphal entry” into Jerusalem– the day on which Jesus cursed “the fig tree,”-- Matthew (with the translators' help) says that, after holding forth in the temple, "Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple [Matthew 24:1]." In adding this one little word, “him” to the text, the translators changed the tenor of Matthew's words entirely.
Without the ‘help’ of the translators, Matthew wrote: “Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to for to shew him the buildings of the temple [Matthew 24:1].” This word “came to” meant the same thing then as it does now: the disciples were sleeping in the courtyard (or on the porch; perhaps under it) waiting for Jesus to finish with his rant.
When the “Good Shepherd” finally shut his mouth, the disciples “came to”: they woke up, that is to say. Nonetheless, as in Gethsemane (two nights later): the writers of the gospels carefully recorded all Jesus ranted about- and- against in the temple– while they slept on the porch like dogs: If the vomitous gospels of the sleeping, egg- sucking thieves- in- the- night are to be believed.
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