I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
This belongs to the Gethsemane narrative on the night of His last agony. After earnestly conversing with and instructing His disciples, He became strangely silent as He neared the spot He had often visited for meditation and prayer. He came now with a heart full of sorrow, seeming shut out from the light of God's sustaining presence in which He had always walked, as One numbered with the transgressors bearing the guilt of fallen humanity with the iniquity of all upon Him who knew no sin under the wrath of God against transgression. It concerns His betrayal by Judas, one of His professed disciples, and His arrest after His long agony in the Garden of Gethsemane by a band of men and soldiers. He spoke the words at His arrest in the garden to the chief priests and captains of the temple who came with the armed mob to take Him.
He had been openly with them daily teaching in the temple day after day, giving the leaders ample opportunity to arrest Him, yet they had not seized Him there. Instead they came at night with swords, staves, and spears to seize Him with weapons as though He were a thief and a criminal. Their coming in this way exposed the secretive, violent nature of their action in their hour, when the power of darkness was at work. He had just shown power to prostrate His captors and to heal the wounded ear, and He could have prayed to the Father for more than twelve legions of angels for deliverance. He did not try to deliver Himself but submitted to the mob, releasing His hands to be bound and permitting Himself to be taken in order to drink the cup the Father had given Him. His arrest was part of the suffering He accepted rather than an escape He lacked the power to make.
His arrest at that time took place so that the Scriptures must be fulfilled. His words terrified the disciples, who all fled. The betrayal and arrest belonged to what He had prepared His disciples to face. He knew His betrayal, suffering, and death would test them, and He prepared them by letting them see earlier how quickly people who had followed Him could turn away. Having already witnessed this fickleness, they would not be wholly surprised when the crowd rejected Him or professed followers deserted Him, and their faith would rest on Him rather than on the changing opinions of others.
This belongs to the Gethsemane narrative on the night of His last agony. After earnestly conversing with and instructing His disciples, He became strangely silent as He neared the spot He had often visited for meditation and prayer. He came now with a heart full of sorrow, seeming shut out from the light of God's sustaining presence in which He had always walked, as One numbered with the transgressors bearing the guilt of fallen humanity with the iniquity of all upon Him who knew no sin under the wrath of God against transgression. It concerns His betrayal by Judas, one of His professed disciples, and His arrest after His long agony in the Garden of Gethsemane by a band of men and soldiers. He spoke the words at His arrest in the garden to the chief priests and captains of the temple who came with the armed mob to take Him.
He had been openly with them daily teaching in the temple day after day, giving the leaders ample opportunity to arrest Him, yet they had not seized Him there. Instead they came at night with swords, staves, and spears to seize Him with weapons as though He were a thief and a criminal. Their coming in this way exposed the secretive, violent nature of their action in their hour, when the power of darkness was at work. He had just shown power to prostrate His captors and to heal the wounded ear, and He could have prayed to the Father for more than twelve legions of angels for deliverance. He did not try to deliver Himself but submitted to the mob, releasing His hands to be bound and permitting Himself to be taken in order to drink the cup the Father had given Him. His arrest was part of the suffering He accepted rather than an escape He lacked the power to make.
His arrest at that time took place so that the Scriptures must be fulfilled. His words terrified the disciples, who all fled. The betrayal and arrest belonged to what He had prepared His disciples to face. He knew His betrayal, suffering, and death would test them, and He prepared them by letting them see earlier how quickly people who had followed Him could turn away. Having already witnessed this fickleness, they would not be wholly surprised when the crowd rejected Him or professed followers deserted Him, and their faith would rest on Him rather than on the changing opinions of others.