by Moira T | Mar 22, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
As a mother, my heart weeps for Mary, the mother of Jesus this day. What pain she must have felt to see what her son endured as He was beaten, reviled and humiliated, and crucified so mercilessly on the cross. What mother could bear to see her child in the throes of...
by Laurie W | Mar 22, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
We don’t know for certain where Golgotha is found. Many hymns and paintings over the years depict it as being on a hill, but none of the four gospels indicate this to be true. As we learn more about the culture and the times, we come to know crucifixions were done...
by Laurie W | Mar 21, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
At last the verdict was in: Jesus Christ would be crucified. Already weak and exhausted from the Garden of Gethsemane, having stayed up all night being tossed here and there by evil men whose only aim was to see Him hung, by now Christ had suffered more cruelly than...
by Laurie W | Mar 20, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
When I decided to write a little about the Atonement my thoughts did not go directly to the Garden of Gethsemane. Instead they trailed back a little in time to the Passover Feast that had occurred just a few hours before. Why? Think about the last time you had a test....
by Laurie W | Mar 20, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
The Garden of Gethsemane was a familiar place to Jesus Christ and His Apostles. We can see it was not the first time they had visited there by looking at John 18:1-2. “WHEN Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was...
by Laurie W | Mar 20, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
“And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and...
