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Atonement in Gethsemane
December 11, 2024

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Our study of the Atonement continues with looking at what happened the night of Jesus's suffering in Gethsemane. From lonliness to sweating blood. From loyal followers to ultimate betrayal. Christ suffered everything on that night so that He would know perfectly how to help us in times of need. It is possibly one of the more overlooked parts of the Atonement, but the study of just this moment can really help better understand Christ's love and relationship to us.

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Elder Jeffrey R. Holland detailing what Christ went through for the atonement:

None Were with Him

 

Gethsemane means “olive press”

Gethsemane

 

Starting at “Two thousand years ago, outside Jerusalem’s walls”

The Purifying Power of Gethsemane

 

Starting at: I turn now to the conclusion of Jesus’ mortal Messiah ship

“Overcome … Even As I Also Overcame”

 

Jesus the Christ
The Lord's Agony in Gethsemane

 

The Betrayal and the Arrest

 

Notes

Discontinuity of the Lord’s Last Discourse to the Apostles.—It is certain that part of the discourse following the last supper was delivered in the upper room where Christ and the Twelve had eaten; it is possible that the latter portion was spoken and the prayer offered (John 15, 16, 17) outdoors as Jesus and the Eleven wended their way toward the Mount of Olives. The 14th chapter of John ends with “Arise, let us go hence”; the next chapter opens with another section of the discourse. From Matthew 26:30–35, and Mark 14:26–31 we may infer that the prediction of Peter’s denial of his Lord was made as the little company walked from the city to the mount. On the other hand, John (18:1) states that “when Jesus had spoken these words,” namely, the whole discourse, and the concluding prayer, “he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron.” Not one of our Lord’s sublime utterances on that night of solemn converse with His own, and of communion between Himself and the Father, is affected by the circumstance of place.

Gethsemane.—The name means “oil-press” and probably has reference to a mill maintained at the place for the extraction of oil from the olives there cultivated. John refers to the spot as a garden, from which designation we may regard it as an enclosed space of private ownership. That it was a place frequented by Jesus when He sought retirement for prayer, or opportunity for confidential converse with the disciples, is indicated by the same writer (John 18:1, 2).

The Bloody Sweat.—Luke, the only Gospel-writer who mentions sweat and blood in connection with our Lord’s agony in Gethsemane, states that “his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (22:44). Many critical expositors deny that there was an actual extrusion of blood, on the grounds that the evangelist does not positively affirm it, and that the three apostles, who were the only human witnesses, could not have distinguished blood from sweat falling in drops, as they watched from a distance in the night, even if the moon, which at the passover season was full, had been unobscured. Modern scripture removes all doubt. See D&C 19:16–19 quoted in the text (page 613), also 18:11. See further a specific prediction of the bloody sweat, Mosiah 3:7.

The Cup as a Symbol.—Our Lord’s frequent mention of His foreseen sufferings as the cup of which the Father would have Him drink (Matthew 26:39, 42; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 18:11; compare Matthew 20:22; Mark 10:38; 1 Corinthians 10:21) is in line with Old Testament usage of the term “cup” as a symbolic expression for a bitter or poisonous potion typifying experiences of suffering. See Psalm 11:6; 75:8; Isaiah 51:17, 22; Jeremiah 25:15, 17; 49:12. In contrast, the opposite meaning is attached to the use of the term in some passages, e.g. Psalm 16:5; 23:5; 116:13; Jeremiah 16:7.

Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal

Jesus the Christ by Talmage

Jesus Christ

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/jesus-the-christ/chapter-33?lang=eng&verse=#p

 

Next week:

Atonement on the Cross

 

Challenge:

Write down effects of the atonement in your life. And/or find something broken in your life and study how the atonement can help that.

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