Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Well in this episode of the podcast we are continuing to explore the Gospel of Cornia

to Matthew.

We've come to what is for me personally one of the most profound, mysterious and almost terrifying

stories in the Gospel.

It's the story of Jesus right before he gets arrested and executed.

He took his closest friends and followers to a small like Olive Garden, Olive Grove.

And he was disappointed by their inability to stay awake.

His closest friends fail him at the moment that he needed them the most.

And so he turns to his heavenly father in a famous set of prayers and multiple times Jesus

asks the father that he not have to go through with everything that's about to happen.

This is so profound that Jesus wasn't like a divine robot on his mission.

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