On the night he was betrayed, after the last supper, Jesus led his disciples out to the garden of Gethsemane to pray. Going a littler farther, he took Peter, James, and John with him and asked them to keep watch with him. Then Jesus went on his own to pray. Knowing that he must suffer and die for the sins of the world, Jesus prayed to his Father that this cup may pass from him, but ultimately that the Father’s will be done. When Jesus returned to the disciples, they were asleep, not keeping watch, for “the Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41). Jesus woke them and two more times he went to pray while they watched, and two more times they slept. As Jesus woke Peter, James, and John the final time, Judas and the crowd came to arrest Jesus in the garden in order to take him to be crucified.
