55. The Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:27-42)

With the conclusion of the Last Supper, Jesus takes his disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane, where in a most profound and mysterious time of agony, Jesus wrestles with the prospect of his coming ordeal. The disciples who had bravely proclaimed their allegiance were unable to stay awake, as Jesus agonized alone, an emblem of the fact that his work of atonement could be accomplished by him alone, with no help of any kind from other human quarters.