gospel · 30 · Gethsemane
Across the Kidron, in a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives, he took Peter, James and John and began to be sorrowful and troubled, and prayed three times that the cup might pass. They slept. Luke adds the sweat like great drops of blood. It is the passion accepted before it is suffered, and the tradition has never let the scene be softened.
The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane is an episode in the life of Jesus, which occurred after the Last Supper and before his betrayal and arrest, all part of the Passion of Jesus leading to his crucifixion and death. This episode is described in the three Synoptic Gospels in the New Testament. According to these accounts, Jesus, accompanied by three of his apostles, Peter, John and James, enters the garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives where he experiences great anguish and prays to be delivered from his impending suffering, while also accepting God's will.
'Not as I will, but as you will' — the passion accepted.