Luke 22 Gethsemane
Elder James E. Talmage
wrote,
“Christ’s agony in the garden is
unfathomable by the finite mind, both as to intensity and cause. … He struggled
and groaned under a burden such as no other being who has lived on earth might
even conceive as possible. It was not physical pain, nor mental anguish alone,
that caused him to suffer such torture as to produce an extrusion of blood from
every pore; but a spiritual agony of soul such as only God was capable of
experiencing. … In that hour of anguish Christ met and overcame all the horrors
that Satan, ‘the prince of this world’ [John 14:30] could inflict. …
“In some manner, actual and terribly real
though to man incomprehensible, the Savior took upon Himself the burden of the
sins of mankind from Adam to the end of the world” (Jesus the Christ, 3rd ed.
[1916], 613).