It is Wednesday evening of Passion week, and according to Jewish reckoning, the new day has begun. By the reckoning of some, it is the 15th day of the first month and the start of the feast of unleavened bread, inaugurated with the celebration of the Passover meal which Jesus had just shared with His…
On Wednesday evening of Passion Week Jesus retired to the garden of Gethsemane after eating His last Passover with the disciples. Having left the meal earlier, Judas would have been in the company of the Jewish religious leaders and was perhaps already enroute with those dispatched by them to arrest Jesus. He knew where to…
After eating His last Passover with His disciples Jesus retired with them to a garden called Gethsemane. There, according to its name, which means an olive press, He was pressed for the oil of the Spirit that would be poured out upon us richly through Him, so that by the washing of regeneration and renewing…
Here in the garden of Gethsemane where olives were pressed for their oil to light lamps (Mat 25:3-4), mix with food (Eze 16:13), as a healing balm (Mar 6:13, Luk 10:34, Jam 5:14), and to anoint prophets, priests and kings (1Ki 19:16, Lev 8:12, 1Sa 16:13) the Scriptures describe how Jesus was also pressed for…
Following Jesus’ last Passover with His disciples He retired to a garden on the Mount of Olives called Gethsemane, which means an olive press. For here in obedience to the will of the Father He would be pressed by the sins of the world in order that the oil of His Holy Spirit might be…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion week and Jesus has just celebrated the Passover a day earlier than the religious leaders because of a different reckoning of the fourteenth day of the new month based on ambiguities that happen on occasion with the sighting of the new moon, and which God in His sovereignty ordained…
At Jesus’ last Passover with His disciples to remember God’s deliverance of His people from their bondage in Egypt He established the Lord’s Supper to remember the even greater deliverance of His people from their bondage to sin, which He was about to accomplish. After the meal He retired to a garden on the Mount…
Following Jesus’ last Passover with His disciples He proceeded as was His custom to the Mount of Olives where they would spend the night (Luk 22:39, cf. Luk 21:37, Joh 8:1). Along the way, He predicted that they would all fall away from Him that very night, to which they all, and especially Peter, affirmed…
As Jesus was on His way to the Garden of Gethsemane after His last Passover with the disciples, Luke records an exchange Jesus had with them about the changes that were about to take place in their future ministry experience. Although they were more favorably received when He sent them out before, now as He…
On Wednesday of Passion Week Jesus celebrated His last Passover with His disciples. After numerous predictions in the days leading up to the feast that He would be delivered up to the religious leaders and handed over to the Romans to be put to death, He shocked His followers at this meal that it would…