some great passion—even to sacrifice his life for it if need be. But in Christ’s case a different kind of suffering was involved as well. The night before he was arrested he went into the garden of Gethsemane, taking three of his disciples with him, and ‘began to be greatly distressed and troubled’, writes Mark. ‘He began to be sorrowful and troubled’, records Matthew. ‘My soul is very sorrowful, even to death’, he says, and begs his friends to stay awake with him. Earlier, too he had often withdrawn