We spent this week on things unseen, reflecting on some of the big moments in the life of our Lord

Jesus. And you remember that the Apostle John says at the end of his gospel, that if everything

Jesus did, everything that happened, was

written down, then I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

I think he must have had a smile on his face when he wrote that. It's a nice way of saying

just how great and glorious the Lord Jesus really is. John himself doesn't record all the

big moments in Jesus' life that the other gospel writers do, probably because he knew they had

already recorded them. But as John Calvin says so well, the other gospels show us Christ's body.

They tell the story, while John shows us his soul.

And that's one reason we love John's gospel so much.

But all that said, there are actually one or two moments in our Lord's life that John

doesn't specifically record in which the other gospel writers really show us

Christ's soul. One of them is surely in Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 to 30, where Jesus invites

his hearers to come to him and shows them his soul. I am meek and lowly in heart, he says. And another is that while John tells us in

John 12, verse 27 and 13 verse 21, that Jesus was deeply troubled in his spirit as the dark shadow

of his passion loomed ever nearer. John doesn't mention our Lord's experience in the

Garden of Gassimony. But the Garden of Gassimony was certainly a big moment for Jesus, a very

big moment. He'd just celebrated the Passover meal with the disciples and instituted the Lord's

supper. He'd left the cup of blessing on the table

in the upper room. He'd passed round that final cup of the Passover meal, the cup of blessing,

but it looks as though he didn't drink it himself. Now for him, the last cup to drink was

the one that his father was pressing into his hands in Githemone, the cup of the

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