10:00pm. Jesus and his disciples have left the Upper Room, walked about 1 mile to the Mount of Olives, and finally ended up in the Garden of Gethsemane...the closest garden to the temple. Jesus went to pray...can you imagine him right here beside this olive tree?...praying for you and me.
As he prayed, the mob came...they didn't have to come far because Jesus had come to them...right next to the temple. Judas betrayed him...he didn't have to do very much because Jesus had already told him to go and "do it quickly." Jesus was arrested...the guards didn't have to seize him by force because Jesus went willingly.
And as he went...he showed his disciples that "he loved them all the way to the end." He became their sacrifice...and as they ran away out of fear, they learned about love...love that shows itelf as a willing sacrifice that would reconnect the disciples to God and offer forgiveness to everyone who wanted it.
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