#that evening

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shoto who you tease relentlessly because you think he’s stiff as shit giving robert pattinson every time you take him out to the club then sends you a vid of himself doing the grind on me challenge at 1pm on a workday (he’s literally half in and half out of his suit) and the allegations are laid to rest

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[cowplant-pizza]

lilly: “i’m worried… he was supposed to be here 2 hours ago…”

elsa: “he’s probably bailed lil. i mean, like he did to amber”

marigold: “els… that’s not nice…”

lilly: “yeah not cool.”

amber: “i can still hear you guys…”

elsa: “sorry sorry, but it’s the truth, isn’t it? that lads changed i’m telling you. he’s not the same jake anymore.”

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after the Passover Seder, Jesus and his inner circle went to the Mount of Olives to pray.

at the time, the location was already something between a grove and a graveyard; many of the Jewish people were buried there, especially those buried in the hope of returning to life when the messiah comes.

it was a place that Jesus and his disciples would go quite a few times during his ministry. sometimes for big group teaching events, sometimes for more private visits.

but that night, Jesus prayed off by himself.

after the temptation in the desert, Luke says that the Devil who had been tempting Jesus left him “until an opportune time“. it’s a popular headcanon that this was that more opportune time.

because, although we don’t see the temptation, the surviving accounts do overhear Jesus’s prayer:

Papa! Father. Everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. […] But if this cup cannot go away until I drink it all, your will be done.

and with that, it’s easy to imagine what the temptation would have been, right? hot on the heels of the death and resurrection of Lazarus. it’s easy to imagine:

you chose to set aside the prerogatives of divinity. fair enough! you chose to live a human life. fair enough! so then why are you throwing it away now? you know the anguish of death! why undergo it? why force your loved ones to undergo it, to sit weeping at your tomb? just walk out! go hide from the mob who came to kill you; before long the heat will die down, public sentiment will turn positive again, and you can get back to preaching. or better yet: now that you've said everything you needed to say, why not just get out of this whole sordid business? open a carpentry shop. marry someone, raise a family, live to a ripe old age. you chose to live a human life. you can have that life… if you want.

but in the end, though Jesus pleads – two, three times – if it would be OK, if it would be OK to have that life…

in the end, he decides that it’s more important that he see the plan through. that he would rather see the plan through – “not my way, Father, but your way“.

the fourth cup of wine which concludes the Passover Seder, conspicuously missing from the biblical account of Jesus’s own paschal meal – the cup which Jesus will drink upon the cross – he commits, in Gethsemane, among the graves and olive trees, he commits to draining it to the last drop.

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