Mark 14:32-42
The Prayer of Gethsemane
32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”
35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
37 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
39 Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. 40 When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him.
41 Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”
Matthew 27:45-56
The Death of Jesus
45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. 46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
47When some of those standing there heard this, they said, "He's calling Elijah."
48Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49The rest said, "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."
50And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. 52The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
54When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son of God!"
55Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs.56Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.
As I have read the New Testament, I am not sure it is fair to call Jesus a Man...If He is a Man or was a Man, He is the One who has reached Man's Complete Potential...
When I read these two sections of the Bible by St. Mark and St. Matthew completely out of context about Jesus, He feels as human as anyone can be (if it is fair to call Him Human or a Man)...But God's plan was to have a Son with Mary, so Jesus is part Man...We must not forget that...Many say and debate over whether Jesus was fully divine, and fully Man, or was Jesus half divine and half man when He walked the earth...
No doubt Jesus was our Greatest Teacher of all time...This divine and human debate make Him even more interesting Teacher...Jesus was a Baby, who was dependent on His mother and father...He was a Young Child who grew into a Man...This Baby, this Young Child, this Man turned into Jesus...But He was always the Son of God...He had, I would guess the same nerve endings, the same cell like structure, the human DNA, I would think as a normal man...Yet, I would think His DNA is a little bit different from everyone else (but this is a guess)...For if His Father, wanted His Son's DNA to be as human as everyone else's He could do that...Yet, His faith in God was different than every other man's faith...
Jesus was tempted like any man...He was tempted and tested in the desert by the evil one...So we know He had temptations, like any other man...Yet, He worked through His temptations and did not sin...Yet, what I think makes Him so different from other men is this faith He has...His faith in God, is completely focused...God was the center of His life...If He were completely just a Man, He would have lapses, He would drift from God...There would be times He would feel a little distant from His Father, if He were a Man...I think the above verses show how much of a man He is...We also see His human side, when weeps for the death of His friend Lazarus...He does these things, even though He has been with God from the beginning (John 1:2)...So although we can see and read about His miracles, His wisdom and divinity, let us not forget this human side...
Jesus being on earth, living, working, even being around other men might even give Him some doubts...This humanness of Jesus is very important for me...When He tells us to have faith in God, He knows what we are going through...He knows we struggle with sin, as well as our faith...He knows what it is to be anxious and be troubled and sorrowed to the point of death...He knows all about apprehension, because He tells us about it (being anxious and apprehensive) in His prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane...I can relate to His doubts on the cross -right before His death...How He works through the issues of His own faith, as being a Man, is hope for us all...We cannot have the exact faith as He did in His Father, but we can learn much from this Man, on how He kept the faith through doubts, and the death on the cross...For when He died, He died as a Man, and God had to resurrect Him, to bring Him back to life...He actually did die on the cross...
His Father loves us to send a Son who was first a Baby Boy, then a Youth, then a Man who would have doubts, sufferings, and troubles...But along the way His faith, made Him sinless...He could be tempted by the pleasures, desires, material wealth, and still not sin...Man seems unable to work through the earthly and flesh issues...God sent His Son, much like us, and He would become our eternal salvation...St. Peter tells us that salvation is found in no one else (Acts 4:12)...