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by JAMES TISSOT
"The Bridge of Kedron Coming from Gethsemane"
Posted on 08/18/2021 6:25:09 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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Ch. 26 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me." Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?" he asked Peter. "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." He went away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done." When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing. Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go! Here comes my betrayer!" | Ch. 14 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death," he said to them. "Stay here and keep watch." Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. "Abba, Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him. Returning the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!" | Ch. 22 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation." He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. "Why are you sleeping?" he asked them. "Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation." |
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Hi Dan! :-)
Hi Mary-Lou! :-)
Very nice. I especially like the bronze piece.
TY.
YW.
It's cool that #29, Cesari, did the same thing, (yes, even the moon!) but 'flipped' Vasari's balance.
#43...the angels' expressions! Man, that gets me deeply!
So many powerful,ones, favorites are 17-18-20-21-33
Especially like the El Greco work, always liked his paintings. They have a little feel for surrealism to them
Tomorrow, the approaching betrayers will come plainly into view. Run!
24-25-26 are especially moving too. The angels trying to comfort Christ in his deep anguish
Someone said once, angels sit on the edge of heaven waiting anxiously for Christians to do right by obeying God, and when the Christian does, they break out in joyous songs of praise. I suspect it may be true that they do, and if so. Is an encouragement to us as we struggle against rebelling against our lord. And thankfully God is merciful and patient when we fail
Yes, as I teed up this thread for posting last night (first time I’d seen it in a month), I noticed the overall excellence of the efforts here—better than usual, I think. Seems like the artists knew it was time to get serious and knuckle down.
I spent much more time studying these pictures. I wanted to see how the artists portrayed Jesus sweating drops of blood. They didn’t, except #12, 30, and 32.
What I saw, which I wasn’t looking for, was Jesus’ isolation from His disciples. They were in the land of nod. They have some excuse, if they drank the tradition 4 cups of wine at the Passover. Tissot, in particular, showed the isolated remoteness of the Garden, away from the Temple mount. He did a great job, as usual, showing how tall the mount is relative to the Kidron valley.
I’ve got to feel for Jesus as a human, to have your friends fall asleep while praying in agony.
The outcrop of rock in The Church Of All Nations known as the rock of agony. During my visit to Israel you get the impression that many of the holy sites are guesswork at best but they do allow one to focus on what they represent even if they aren't or even are the exact location. This rock if not where Jesus actually did his praying that night is very close by regardless.
I am profoundly disappointed at the artists' aversion to portraying Jesus' blood--but I'm jumping ahead to their bloodless flagellation and crucifixion. It's malpractice.
That's laudable, I think. I'd not seen that before--thanks.
“I am profoundly disappointed at the artists’ aversion to portraying Jesus’ blood—but I’m jumping ahead to their bloodless flagellation and crucifixion. It’s malpractice.”
Agree. If you don’t do it, I’ll supply some stills from ‘The Passion of the Christ’. There’s a lot more blood there, but I suspect still less than reality.
“During my visit to Israel you get the impression that many of the holy sites are guesswork at best”
I like what our pastor said when our church group toured: “If not here, then near.” He said that at the Mount of Beatitudes, the upper room, the Shepherds’ field in Bethlehem, even on the Mount of Olives looking at the Temple Mount.
I really wonder what--if anything--they think: why did Jesus die? He bled to death! His back was ripped open, and the blood couldn't coagulate because the wounds rubbed against the cross every time he raised himself to breathe.
By the way, in case you're interested, here is the gold-standard on Jesus' crucifixion: fourteen pages by a Christian M.D. who also holds an advanced engineering degree:
I became interested in the medical and engineering aspects of the crucifixion when, as a relatively new believer, I attended medical school at the University of Miami in Florida in 1974-1976. I already had my engineering doctorate so my medical training made it fairly simple to work out the physiology of whole process, which was confirmed later in the JAMA paper published by W. D. Edwards, et. al. in 1986. The engineering load analysis, when added to the physiological information, will make it obvious why the Roman form of crucifixion is the most horrible, cruel, painful and humiliating form of execution ever devised.
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