Passion Week - Thursday PM

Each day this week, we're looking at the day by day unfolding of the Passion Week. Tonight, we look at the events from the Last Supper before the Garden of Gethsemane.

"You do not know what you are asking..." With those words, Jesus turned back James and John's audacious request: "Are you able to drink the cup I am to drink?" Their answer - as ours would have been - revealed great ignorance, as did their drowsy expressions when Jesus woke them up after he stared into "the cup." 

Matt	Mark	Luke	John
26:36-56	14:32-52	22:31-53	15:1 – 18:12

SUMMARY

While teaching the disciples, Jesus leads them to to the Garden… There, as the disciples slept, Jesus withdrew in agonizing prayer that ends as Judas comes and leads soldiers to arrest Jesus.

FOR REFLECTION

Read Psalm 40:7-8 … It’s not easy to do what God wants for us, especially when the cost to us will be high.  We don’t like to be uncomfortable, but that was the path before Jesus.  Doing God’s will was His “delight”, but it was a painful, shameful horror to accomplish.

Jesus, we fall silent before you… we are incapable to imagine the horrors you saw when gazing into the cup of God’s wrath (Is 51:17-22), but we are grateful you endured for us the agonizing terror ahead of You.

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