Compare Jesus And His Father's Interactions In The Garden Of Gethsemane

IN THE GARDEN

We discuss Jesus and His father’s interactions in the garden of Gethsemane in the lesson Love Endures all Things. The following interactions in the garden are between Jesus, Peter, James and John. In addition to the text below, they are also included in Mark 14:32-52, Luke 22:40-53 and John 18:2-11.

Please read Matthew 26:36-46.

Note verse 40-41: And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour? Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Note verse 43: Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

Note verse 45: Then He came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting?”

Jesus took His three closest disciples with Him when He went to pray. Before He left for His prayer time alone with God, He asked them to keep watch while He prayed. The word “watch” means to keep alert. Jesus was encouraging them to vigilance when confronted with spiritual attack, to keep from being lulled into spiritual sleep.

Jesus came back and found them sleeping and asked them to keep watch and pray so that they would not be

He went with Peter to the tomb. They literally ran to the tomb, with John arriving first but waiting for Peter before entering the tomb. Peter entered first, perhaps because he was older and the more senior disciple. The point of including narrative about the linens may be to contrast Jesus’ resurrection with that of Lazarus. When Lazarus came out of the tomb where he was buried, his hands and feet were bound with linen strips and his face was wrapped with a cloth. He had a mortal body. Lazarus would die again. Jesus, on the other hand, did not have a mortal body. He would never die again. The fact that His wrappings and cloth were lying there is evidence that Jesus had not been