Mark 14:32-52

The text before us details interactions which took place in the garden of Gethsemane following the supper at which Jesus announced that He would be betrayed and that the disciples would be offended because of Him (v. 18, 27). Jesus stated that these things would transpire “for it is written.” The prophet Zechariah wrote of the scattering of the sheep some 500 years before the day on which the shepherd would be slain…