The King's Cup

The road to the cross is a difficult one. Sometimes, we can get so
caught up with Jesus' divinity that we forget his humanity. In this
passage, all the events that have been predicted numerous times are
now starting to take place. Jesus knows that his friends are not
going to be steadfast in his time of trial. Jesus knows that his
friends are going to make bold promises about their loyalty to him
and pathetically under-deliver. Jesus knows that he will have to
endure hell in the next hours at the hands of Gentile dogs,
religious hypocrites and his own disciple.