Read Mk 14:32-42

We find Jesus praying for the Father to "take this cup away from me". Going to the cross was going to be really hard on Jesus because He knew He was going to be rejected by the Father as He took on all of our sins.

And then the diciples fell asleep! Lesson......... we need to have compassion on other people's mistakes. We are just as weak as the disciples, men who had spent 3 years learning from Jesus! Why do we expect so much of eachother?

Read Mk 14:43-52

John says that a "cohort" of armed Roman soldiers with swords came to get Jesus and that would have been 600 men. They must have thought that Jesus was very powerful!

One of the 12 that Jesus carefully picked is the one who betrayed HIm. How awful to think that he did this.

The naked man seems to be John Mark, the author of the gospel. It is reasonable that the soldiers had been at Mark's house looking for Jesus prior to this account. This is possibly the house of the upper room. Perhaps they woke Mark from his sleep and he hurried out with a cloth wrapped around him.