the outset of his ministry, at age thirty? Or did the Father know just when his Son’s faith would be strengthened sufficiently so that at this time he was able to engage the fight and withstand the temptation and declare in the end, “Not my will, but yours, be done” (Luke 22:42)? Indeed, Jesus learned obedience from the things he suffered. That is, he learned to obey increasingly difficult demands of the Father, preparing him for this hardest of all demands—going to the cross. Could he have faced