0996 Mk.14.26-42 Anticipating the Cross - Jesus' Agony and Our Hope

In the middle of what seems doom and gloom, Jesus reveals a great hope to His disciples. But before the hope is revealed, Jesus will unjustly suffer a criminal’s death. That Jesus suffered all alone demonstrated that this whole plan of salvation is God’s initiative & doing. Jesus’ disciples will have no part of that plan, since this is a divine work, where the glory for it, will be God’s alone. Accordingly, the disciples will desert Jesus. But He has inserted hope into this moment of rejection, since He will meet them again in Galilee as their resurrected Lord.