Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, 

"Sit here while I go over there to pray."

He took Peter and Zebedees two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed. 

He told them, 

"My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me."

Matthew 26:36-38 NLT

Anguished.

Distressed.

"My soul is crushed".

If we've ever felt that way, Jesus knows too what it's like. 

He's been there too. 

"My soul is crushed."

And in that moment Jesus is aware of what he needs and is OK to ask it of his people:

"Stay here and keep watch with me".

Sometimes that's what we need when we're distressed, anguished, feeling crushed, that someone who knows us, someone who cares, will sit with us.

There's no fixing going on.

Jesus, in his distress, simply asks two people he knows well to sit with him. 

If it's OK for Jesus to ask his friends for what he needs, it's OK for us too. 

#easter

#inthistogether