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 ...
12What she did was to pour this perfume on my body to get me ready for burial. 13Now, I assure you that wherever this gospel is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus (Mk 14.10–11; Lk 22.3–6) 14Then one...
Jesus went to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane, and each time He came back, the disciples were asleep. Jesus asked them to “watch and pray” because temptation is near. Have you ever noticed that when you are tired at night you are tempted to do whatever your flesh or mind is telling...
Secondly, it says that His prayer was heard because of His reverence. In that moment, Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane was sweating like drops of blood, so profusely. He was crying out to His Father to take this cup from Him. The reason God would have heard Him in those moments wou...
It is reminiscent of the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prays for the cup to pass from Him, yet submits to the Father's will. No, it was for this very reason I came to this hourThis declaration affirms Jesus' resolute commitment to His mission. The phrase "for this very reason" ...
Isn’t that what Jesus did for us when He was betrayed, when He wept in the Garden of Gethsemane before His death? He thought of you and me, with each agonizing step He took dragging the cross, with each labored breath He took as He hung on the cross. He didn’t want us to carr...
all were to forsake Him and flee. • His soul was exceeding sorrowful, and He prays; when His soul was troubled, God spake to Him. Then in the Garden of Gethsemane, while He prayed, an angel appeared to strengthen him. In answer to His cry, "Father, glorify Thy Name," He hears ...
Hosanna in the highest!” 11 And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve. The Fig Tree Withered 12 Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He ...
That story is found in his own gospel. He writes about a young man hiding in the Garden of Gethsemane. We aren’t given his name, but many believe it was John Mark: “A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, ...
without the purity of love in my heart. And every day, I must ask Jesus to make my heart a receptacle into which He pours His love. I am a needful soul who deeply wants to get over herself and learn what it looks like to reflect the One who was our advocate when we were ...