The Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke give us the parallel descriptions of the desperate prayer of Jesus when he took his closest disciples to Gethsemane to pray just prior to being betrayed and taken to be crucified. The traditional and still the predominant teaching about sees Jesus as having been afraid of going to suffer at the cross out of human weakness. Was Jesus afraid? Could the man who taught that "those who seek to keep their lives will lose it, and those who seek to lose their lives will keep it," and "what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?", actually have any fear of any type of threat to his life? In a speech entitled The New Future of Christianity , given on September 18, 1974, the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon stated that: "In our ignorance we Christians have missed the true spirit of Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. There he told his disciples: Matthew 26: 3 8 ... “My soul is deeply grie
