6. The Garden of Gethsemane

There is something darkly funny about disciples who can’t stay awake, while Jesus prays in agony. The disciples throughout the gospels are always getting it wrong. They don’t recognise the danger that is coming to the Garden. They never do what Jesus asks, but they also never stop following. This seems so much like the Christian life, we are forever ignoring Jesus or doing the opposite, but we also find we can’t stop following, we keep coming back to listen again to what Jesus demands.