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Lesson 6 · February 10, 1900

In the Garden

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On Mt. Olivet, A. D. 31.

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  1. 1.After instituting the Lord's Supper, where did Jesus go with His disciples? .
  2. 2.Arriving in the garden, what did He request them to do? .
  3. 3.Were any of them privileged to go beyond that point? . See note 1. Side texts: .
  4. 4.In the sorrow of His heart, why did Jesus want these three disciples with Him? Verse 38. See note 2.
  5. 5.Having gone a little farther, what did Jesus do? . Side texts: .
  6. 6.In what spirit was this prayer offered? .
  7. 7.How earnestly did Jesus pray on this occasion? . Side texts: .
  8. 8.In what form did relief come to Him? Verse 43. Side texts: .
  9. 9.Upon going to the three disciples, how did He find them? . Side texts: .
  10. 10.When they were awakened, what injunction did He give them, directing His words specially to Peter? . Side texts: .
  11. 11.After these solemn words, what did Jesus then do? .
  12. 12.Returning to the disciples, in what condition did He find them? . Side texts: .
  13. 13.What did He next do? . Side texts: .
  14. 14.What power seemed to rule the disciples on that occasion? . See note 3.
  15. 15.Returning again to find the disciples had lost the opportunity presented the third time to them, what did He then say? .
  16. 16.As He was thus speaking, who appeared on the scene? .

Reading

Notes

chapter 74; "Spirit of Prophecy," vol. 3, chapter 7.

1. The three disciples thus taken to the interior of the garden, to there witness Christ's passion, had also been the chosen witnesses of His transfiguration. Of all others, these alone were permitted to behold the power of Christ in raising the ruler's daughter from the dead. .

2. In this trying hour, where all the agony of His life was culminated, Jesus evidently desired these beloved disciples near, just the same as we desire the presence of dear friends in our great struggles with spiritual foes. Besides, He was desirous that they might witness in the soul agony which drew the bloody sweat from His face, something of the love wherewith He had loved them, that they might be prepared to go forth to the world enabled to proclaim that love in its fulness.

3. Had Peter overcome the power of darkness specially manifested during the season of agony endured by Christ, he would have been fortified against the temptation which Christ knew would surely follow His arrest in the garden that night. But, like many now whom the Lord would prepare to stand in the great temptation soon to come upon all the world (), he lost the necessary power to withstand the trial by letting his will-power be controlled by a weakness of the flesh. See, again, .

Bible texts in this lesson

Matthew 26:36-47 · Mark 14:32-43 · Luke 22:39-47 · John 18:1 · Matthew 26:36 · Matthew 26:37 · Matthew 4:21 · Matthew 17:1 · Matthew 17:2 · Mark 14:35 · Luke 22:41 · Matthew 26:39 · Luke 22:44 · Hebrews 5:7 · Matthew 4:11 · Matthew 26:40 · Luke 22:45 · Mark 14:29-31 · Mark 14:42 · Mark 14:43 · Mark 14:40 · Mark 14:44 · Isaiah 63:3 · Luke 22:53 · Matthew 26:45 · Luke 8:51 · Revelation 3:10 · Matthew 26:41

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