Article January 2, 1954 ISSUE

WATCH

MAX DUNAWAY

When Christ Jesus summoned three of his followers to accompany him in the garden of Gethsemane on the night before his crucifixion, he gave them a simple but important command (Matt.26:38): "Watch with me." Certainly Jesus had every right to expect them to obey, for they had but a little while before affirmed their undying allegiance to him.

Yet when he returned to them, after going apart to pray, he found them last asleep. To Peter, who had protested his allegiance most vehemently of all, Jesus said (Matt. 26:40, 41): "Could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." That "the flesh is weak" was subsequently evidenced by this disciple's repeated denial that he even knew Jesus.

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