In the middle of Wednesday night of passion week after the new day had begun by Jewish reckoning hours earlier and was now turning Thursday by Roman and our own more modern reckoning, Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane and taken to the high priest’s estate. There He was first taken to Annas,…
After celebrating the deliverance of God’s people from their bondage in Egypt on Wednesday evening of Passion week at His last Passover with His disciples Jesus was pressed for the oil of His Holy Spirit in the Garden of Gethsemane. Instead of pursuing His own will to escape the cup of suffering that was before…
After celebrating the Passover with His disciples on Wednesday evening of Passion Week Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane later that night and taken to the palatial estate of the high priest (Luk 22:54). There He was taken first to Annas (Joh 18:13), a puppet master whom the Romans had installed as high…
Because of an ambiguity that sometimes occurs with the sighting of the new moon that marked the start of the month, on Wednesday evening of Passion Week Jesus celebrated the Passover a day earlier than the religious leaders in Jerusalem. This providence of God allowed Him to both establish the Lord’s Supper with its greater…
At Jesus’ last Passover celebration, where bread and wine were shared to commemorate the deliverance of God’s people from their bondage in Egypt, He established the Lord’s Supper, imparting even greater meaning to those elements that typified the even greater salvation from their bondage to sin He was about to accomplish. Matthew records that after…
In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus was seized by a mob sent from the religious leaders and led by Judas. He could easily have escaped, knowing what was coming upon Him, and was sorely tempted to do so, even sweating drops of blood (Luk 22:44). But through prayer He had subjected Himself to the Father…
In the middle of Wednesday night of Passion Week, immediately after surrendering Himself to the Father’s will in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was seized by a mob sent from the religious leaders and led by Judas. However, having failed to keep watch, Peter was not led by the same Holy Spirit of sacrifice that…
In the middle of Wednesday night of Passion week Judas arrived at the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives leading a mob from the Jewish religious leaders to arrest Jesus. He knew where Jesus would be, for He was accustomed to stay there with His disciples during the feasts (Luk 22:39, Joh 18:2).…
In the Garden of Gethsemane on Wednesday night of Passion week Jesus was identified by Judas with a kiss and seized by those he led from the Sanhedrin to arrest Him. Having emerged victorious through prayer from the fear of suffering that had crushed Him for His Holy Spirit which would be poured out for…
Jesus is in the garden of Gethsemane where He was crushed as in an olive press by the terrors of His approaching suffering for the oil of His Holy Spirit that subjects one’s own will to the will of the Father, even unto death. It was this oil of His Spirit that was poured out…