The King's Cup

The road to the cross is a difficult one. Sometimes, we can get so caught up with Jesus' divinity that we forget his humanity. In this passage, all the events that have been predicted numerous times are now starting to take place. Jesus knows that his friends are not going to be steadfast in his time of trial. Jesus knows that his friends are going to make bold promises about their loyalty to him and pathetically under-deliver. Jesus knows that he will have to endure hell in the next hours at the hands of Gentile dogs, religious hypocrites and his own disciple.