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Previously in MARK.....

Gospel, Good News of Mark

Passion Week, Passover in Jerusalem, Eucharist in the Upper Room..

He and the disciples have just eaten the passover feast, which he did not finish, he didn’t drink the 4th cup..

Mark 14:

He then explained the New Passover, the bread represented His body and the wine His blood.

They then sing the Great Hallel and go out to the Mount of Olives.

Mark 14:

And Jesus says before the cock crows twice, three times you will deny me.

Mark 14:

“Vehemently” KJV

AUTHENTIC HISTORY...

Peter (and the rest) all make bold assertions.

And they all fail.

Making them all look very weak and foolish.

That this failure is recorded in the Gospels shows that this is authentic history.

The early church would NOT make up such a story about it’s leaders.

And Now gives us...

THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN

Mark 14:32-

14:32 Gethsemane.

Gethsemane was located in an orchard of olive trees in the Kidron Valley outside the eastern wall of Jerusalem below the Mount of Olives.

The name means “oil press.”

He takes Peter, James and John… The Inner Circle

The Greek word for “overwhelmed with sorrow” (perilypos), again a rare word, means “burdened with grief,” and in the present context “despair unto death.”

Withdrawing from the three disciples, Jesus collapses on the earth in prayer that the ordeal before him might be avoided (v.

35).

Nothing in all the Bible compares to Jesus’ agony and anguish in Gethsemane—neither the laments of the Psalms, nor the broken heart of Abraham as he prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac (Gen 22:5), nor David’s grief at the death of his son Absalom (2 Sam 18:33).

Luke 22:44 even speaks of Jesus’ “sweat falling to the ground like drops of blood”

His soul is crushed with grief...

Gethsemane means oil press.

Where they crush the olives.

Jesus is being crushed.

Not a coincidence.

THE FIRST PRAYER

Mark 14:35-

Why do people say Jesus spoke in Aramaic?

Abba, Pater First in Aramaic, and then in Greek..

Abba - 3 times in our Bibles.

always with Pater..

The cup of wrath, representing God’s judgment.

THE SECOND PRAYER

Mark 14:39-

The Greek here says “said the same word”

The Third Prayer

Mark 14:41-

Yu-dah Ish-kar-e-oath

No passage shows the human side of Jesus more vividly than this text.

He openly came to grips with death, asked to bypass it, and then expressed his submission to the Father’s will.

He first asked that the cup of suffering—even the cup of God’s wrath—pass from him.

Jesus knew that drinking the cup meant taking God’s judgment and wrath upon himself on behalf of others (see note on 14:36).

Knowing that he could not escape this, he told the Father, “I want your will to be done, not mine” (14:36).

The spirit and example of this prayer express Jesus’ submission to the Father’s will.

This attitude is reflected in the prayer Jesus gave to the disciples, “Your will be done on earth as in heaven.”

As Jesus prayed to bring himself into submission to the Father’s will, the disciples fell asleep.

He came to them and asked, “Couldn’t you watch with me even one hour?”

(14:37).

That Peter and the others failed to stay awake suggests their lack of preparation for what was to come.

Jesus told them, “Keep watch and pray, so you will not give in to temptation” (14:38).

The disciples needed to prepare for the important spiritual battle ahead, and even at this late point in the Gospel, the disciples still had much to learn.

Temptation to sin must be met with prayer.

Jesus told them, “The spirit is willing, but the body is weak” (14:38).

This saying expresses well the status of Peter and the others.

They may have desired to be faithful and stand with Jesus, but fear would overtake them as they sought to preserve their lives.

Jesus came to the disciples three times, and all three times they had failed to stay awake.

Peter will fail three more times with his three denials.

Jesus stood alone at the time of trial.

On behalf of others, Jesus would drink the cup of suffering and punishment that God would send his way.

He was ready as the betrayer approached

The betrayal and arrest of Jesus

Mark 14:43-

Judas Iscariot is not spoken of again in Mark.

He is mentioned in , and then at the anointing of Jesus which he finds an extravagant waste, and now here at the betrayal kiss.

We know how his story ends in Matthew, without going into it again, Judas was disappointed with Jesus’ goals as a Messiah, especially politically, he would have wanted an overthrow of the Roman occupancy of Jerusalem and Israel at the least.

No passage shows the human side of Jesus more vividly than this text.

He openly came to grips with death, asked to bypass it, and then expressed his submission to the Father’s will.

He first asked that the cup of suffering—even the cup of God’s wrath—pass from him.

Jesus knew that drinking the cup meant taking God’s judgment and wrath upon himself on behalf of others (see note on 14:36).

Knowing that he could not escape this, he told the Father, “I want your will to be done, not mine” (14:36).

The spirit and example of this prayer express Jesus’ submission to the Father’s will.

This attitude is reflected in the prayer Jesus gave to the disciples, “Your will be done on earth as in heaven.”

As Jesus prayed to bring himself into submission to the Father’s will, the disciples fell asleep.

He came to them and asked, “Couldn’t you watch with me even one hour?”

(14:37).

That Peter and the others failed to stay awake suggests their lack of preparation for what was to come.

Jesus told them, “Keep watch and pray, so you will not give in to temptation” (14:38).

The disciples needed to prepare for the important spiritual battle ahead, and even at this late point in the Gospel, the disciples still had much to learn.

Temptation to sin must be met with prayer.

Jesus told them, “The spirit is willing, but the body is weak” (14:38).

This saying expresses well the status of Peter and the others.

They may have desired to be faithful and stand with Jesus, but fear would overtake them as they sought to preserve their lives.

Jesus came to the disciples three times, and all three times they had failed to stay awake.

Peter will fail three more times with his three denials.

Jesus stood alone at the time of trial.

On behalf of others, Jesus would drink the cup of suffering and punishment that God would send his way.

He was ready as the betrayer approached

Bart Ehrman, in his book the gospel of Judas says: Behind the question of who is Judas Iscariot is a bit of rare historical knowledge.

In Jesus’ day there was a group of Jewish insurrectionists supporting a violent overthrow of the Roman occupancy who were called “Sicarii” — literally “people who wield daggers.”

They had a reputation for mingling in a crowd and stealing up to an aristocrat and killing him with a dagger, mixing in then with everyone else and escaping.

The name Iscariot is very odd and no one really knows what it means.

Could it mean that Judas was actually a zealot seeking a military uprising against Rome, so that when he realized Jesus was not in support of that kind of thing, he turned on him and handed him over to the authorities?

It’s an interesting idea, but it hinges, to some extent, on the meaning of Iscariot.

What does the world/name mean?