Still again a third time He went away and prayed the same prayer, but all the while His disciples were fast asleep!
At last Jesus rose up from prayer, and when He came to His disciples He told them that now He was going to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.
As He was speaking, a great band of men, led by wicked Judas, came hurrying into the garden.
Now Judas had said to the chief priests (when he sold Jesus to them for thirty pieces of silver), "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is He; hold Him fast."
The Lord Jesus, who is God as well as man, could easily have escaped from their cruel hands. He told them He could have prayed to His Father, and He would have sent Him thousands and thousands of angels.
The band of men and officers from the chief priests were so amazed at the majesty of Jesus, that they went backward and fell to the ground.
But Jesus was ready to die for us; for how else could we be saved?
Then they took Jesus prisoner, and bound Him and led Him away to the palace of the High Priest.
And as He was led away from Gethsemane, He said to Peter those memorable words of love and submission—"The cup which My Father hath given Me, shall I not drink it?"
He knew that the Cross to which He was going was His Father's Will! For had He not said Himself, to the people?—