<p>26:37&nbsp;<i>And he took with him</i>- As Moses took Joshua with him.&nbsp;</p><p><i>Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed</i>- This was the fulfilment of Is. 53:3, &quot;a man of sorrows&quot;, an intensive plural, implying 'great sorrow'. The fact He 'began' to feel this suggests that the prophecy of Is. 53 is specifically about the Lord in His time of sufferings, rather than generally in His life. It was there, at the end, that there was no beauty that He should be desired. And yet Is. 53:4 defines those 'sorrows' as the sorrows of our sins. His sorrow was therefore in that He felt His identification with our sins, our sorrows. And He felt that identification very intensely as He prayed. Likewise the weight He felt, in that He began to feel heavy, refers to the weight of human sin which He felt Himself carrying.</p><p>Mk. 14:33 adds that He was &ldquo;amazed&rdquo;. The amazement was perhaps because He came to realize that His subconscious hopes for a deliverance, akin to Isaac&rsquo;s at the last minute, were not going to come true. This element of surprise is reflected later in His desperate question &ldquo;Why have You forsaken Me?&rdquo;. This crisis of understanding contrasts strongly with His calm assurance and assumption that He must now die and resurrect. And yet to be tempted just as we are, He had to go through the experience of things not working out as expected, of crisis and desperate desiring to understand. For these things are what are at the root of our hardest human experiences.</p>