He suffered as only God could suffer, bearing our griefs, carrying our sorrows, being wounded for our transgressions, voluntarily submitting Himself to the iniquity of us all, just as Isaiah prophesied (see Isa. “On the night Jesus was betrayed, He took three of the Twelve and went into the place called Gethsemane. “‘If it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt’ ” ( Doctrines of Salvation, comp. It was something terrible, something terrific so we can understand why he would cry unto his Father: I have suffered pain, you have suffered pain, and sometimes it has been quite severe but I cannot comprehend pain, which is mental anguish more than physical, that would cause the blood, like sweat, to come out upon the body. That is where he bled from every pore in his body. “That was not when he was on the cross that was in the garden.

It was in the Garden of Gethsemane that the blood oozed from the pores of his body: ‘Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit-and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink’. His great suffering was before he ever was placed upon the cross.

A great many people have an idea that when he was on the cross, and nails were driven into his hands and feet, that was his great suffering. “We speak of the passion of Jesus Christ. President Joseph Fielding Smith (1876–1972) That it was a place frequented by Jesus when He sought retirement for prayer, or opportunity for confidential converse with the disciples, is indicated by the same writer ( John 18:1, 2)” ( Jesus the Christ, 3rd ed. John refers to the spot as a garden, from which designation we may regard it as an enclosed space of private ownership. “Gethsemane.-The name means ‘oil-press’ and probably has reference to a mill maintained at the place for the extraction of oil from the olives there cultivated.

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