Matthew 26:34-38 - My soul is overwhelmed

26:34,35

Jesus reaffirms and expands upon what Peter will do, and Peter continues in his insistence that he will remain faithful. Obviously on a much lesser level, but I guess that all of us have experience of people who make bold claims for themselves, but when it comes to the crunch they fail completely. We have probably done this ourselves on a number of occasions! We should not be impressed by words alone, either from ourselves, or from others.

26:36-38
We now get the Gethsemane episode. Jesus went there with His disciples to pray. Jesus is 100% God and 100% human. So as the most crucial time in human history was approaching He prayed to His Father. He set most of the disciples aside and took Peter, James and John with Him to pray. Jesus then began to be “sorrowful and troubled”. We can learn a lot from the time in Gethsemane, and one is the real human reactions of Jesus to what was about to happen. Experiencing feelings is not a sin. If something we are about to encounter is horrific we will experience associated emotions, and at a deep level. If the Son of God did, so will we. Jesus was “overwhelmed to the point of death”. He asked Peter, James and John to pray with Him.