The struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane was a matter of Jesus’ mind and feelings being hammered in every possible way to make him mistrust the Father. He almost died of it on the spot. But, Jesus added to his friends, “in me this ‘ruler’ has not the least thing on his side” (John 14:30). It was, finally, what was not in Jesus that made him invincible, that kept him safe.
