FROM TODAY'S READING...
EASTER WEEK 2024...
“[The disciples] had been so eager to fight God’s war with man’s weapons, but they now fumbled with a more essential weapon—prayer.”
E. Earle Ellis, The Gospel of Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1981), p. 257.
Luke 22:38-46 (NLT) “Look, Lord,” they replied, “we have two swords among us.”
“That’s enough,” he said.
Then, accompanied by the disciples, Jesus left the upstairs room and went as usual to the Mount of Olives. There he told them, “Pray that you will not give in to temptation.”
He walked away, about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” Then an angel from heaven appeared and strengthened him. He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.
At last he stood up again and returned to the disciples, only to find them asleep, exhausted from grief. “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation.”
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