Lael ArringtonWhat we cannot even imagine about Jesus’ supernatural suffering in Gethsemane – Lael Arrington https://laelarrington.com Faith and Culture: Live Wisely Love Well Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 73081510 What we cannot even imagine about Jesus’ supernatural suffering in Gethsemane https://laelarrington.com/2017/04/can-we-even-imagine-jesus-supernatural-suffering-in-gethsemane/ https://laelarrington.com/2017/04/can-we-even-imagine-jesus-supernatural-suffering-in-gethsemane/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:50:57 +0000 admin http://laelarrington.com/?p=4249 The first time I saw Robert Doares painting of Jesus praying in Gethsemane I was shocked. It was so unlike the image stamped into my imagination–the image at left of Christ kneeling, earnestly entreating his Father to “let this cup pass from me,” one of the most copied images in the world.

Artist Heinrich Hoffman pictures Jesus late Thursday night after the “Last Supper” looking up, somewhat distressed, his hands in a fretful knot. In the dark quiet before the rapidly approaching storm he has tried to get his disciples to stay awake and pray with him for one hour, but exhausted by the sorrowful news at dinner (One of you will betray me…I’m about to be crucified), they fall asleep. So he leaves the disciples about a stone’s throw behind and prays.

His disciples could not imagine what is coming. Neither, it seems, could Hoffman. Can we? Jesus could. A careful reading of the text paints this far more extreme picture:

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