Few biblical episodes have generated more theological interpretation across the centuries than that of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he appears fearfully to resist the divine will in the moments before the passion sequence is initiated. Scholars of the early modern period, however...
The prisoner is generally brought on in bindings, fresh from his arrest at the Garden of Gethsemane; Jesus has some kind of interrogation, mainly with Caiaphas; he is then beaten in a mocking form by a group of soldiers or henchmen. Though the plays range in dates from the late fifteenth...
The kingdom has come. God’s spirit dwells in those who believe in him for salvation. Heaven and earth come together in us as heaven and earth came together in the Garden of Eden and the tabernacle in the wilderness and the Temple in Jerusalem. One day, Jesus will return, and the New...
His own loving command as He sat at the table with His disciples52 was, ‘This do in remembrance of Me,’ and it is148 through fellowship with Him in spirit—in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross at Calvary—that ‘we feed on Him in our hearts by faith with thanksgiving.’ ...