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…
On the way to the Garden of Gethsemane after celebrating the Passover with His disciples, Jesus warned according to Scripture that they would all fall away and be scattered that very night like sheep whose Shepherd was struck down (Mat 26:31). To this Peter boasted he would never fall away even if everyone else did…
It is Wednesday of Passion Week and Jesus and His disciples have just celebrated the Passover a day earlier than would the religious leaders. God in His providence had orchestrated this by the ambiguous sighting of the new moon during that particular month in history, in order that Jesus might both assign a new and…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion Week and Jesus has just finished celebrating the Passover feast with His disciples a day earlier than the official celebration observed by the religious leaders. This is no different from what happens on occasion even today when Muslims in different areas celebrate Ramadan on different days depending on what…
After announcing that one of them would betray Him and instituting the Lord’s Supper, Jesus and His disciples sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. On the way He shared with them that according to the prophetic word, they would all fall away from Him that evening as He, their Shepherd,…