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 in 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 gospel shows 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

heroes 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 of a mirror. John

doesn't mention our Lord's experience in the Garden of Gesemony.

But the Garden of Gesemony was certainly a big moment for Jesus, a very big moment. He just

celebrated the Passover meal with the disciples and instituted the Lord's Supper. He left the

cup of blessing on the table in the upper room. He 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,

...