When he writes a song on the text “My Jesus, what affliction of the soul befell Thee in Gethsemane,” we feel in the plunging tritones the fall of Adam, and in the crushing suspensions, the sighs of Christ as he accepts the sins and sorrows of the world. These were the literal ...
look at a historical interpretation of what happened to Jesus, and then look more broadlyat what his story means for each of us to do. And no, its not about saving us from a literal hellif we believe the right things. *** Jesus wasborn into a peasant class, nothing fancy. It...
He believes Mark could’ve run wearing only his bedclothes to the garden to warn Jesus, but it was too late. Mark’s inclusion of this story of the runner in the Garden of Gethsemane was his way of verifying his eyewitness of Jesus’s arrest. Why Do We Read Mark If He Wasn’t a ...
apostles before his arrest and crucifixion was, according to three of the four gospels, a Passover seder. It most likely included the consumption of bread and wine, as well as other ritual foods. After the Last Supper, Jesus and his disciples went to the garden of Gethsemane to await his...
At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. / But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” ...
According to the Gospels, Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper with His disciples. He was then put on trial before Pontius Pilate. "Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him and brought him first...
This verse has been a challenge to me through most of my life. Not that I have ever been one to curse someone out (though I’m sure that has happened more than once in my 42 years), but I have said hurtful things or used a hurtful tone. I still struggle with tone – just ask ...
We know Jesus was about 30 years old when he began his ministry (Luke 3:23), but the Bible tells us virtually nothing about what he looked like―except that he didn’t stand out in any particular way. When Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion (Matthew ...
” 55Then Jesus spoke to the crowd, “Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw? Every day I sat down and taught in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. 56But all this has happened in order to make what the prophets wrote in the ...
“the hour has come” and that Judas’ was going to betray before it happened so that they would see God’s sovereignty over this whole situation. All of this should strengthen our resolve to seek the solution to our problems in Jesus Christ who is in complete control of everything, even...