Gethsemane

This window portrays Jesus in the garden at Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-46). After eating a final meal with His closest twelve disciples, Jesus led them to the garden of Gethsemane to pray. It was a crucial time because even though Jesus had known from the beginning that His purpose in coming was to die a substitutionary death for those He was going to save, still in these final hours the agonizing reality to which he was committed was affirmed one final time. During his time of intense prayer Jesus asked God the Father repeatedly if there was any other possible way for the salvation of His elect people to be accomplished other than through His own death. But there was no other way. The repeated and final denial that there was no other way at all for people to be fully pardoned from their sins other than through the death of Jesus, emphatically drives home the New Testament message that Jesus is the only way by which we can be forgiven of our sins and have eternal life. If people can be pardoned from their sins by any number of ways, or if sin is really no matter of great importance before God, then the events which are recorded in the garden of Gethsemane make Jesus look ridiculous, and even delusional, for agonizing so intently over an issue of little importance. But we believe that Jesus willingly laid down His life for the punishment of our sins to open a singular door of salvation. There is no other name under heaven among people by which we can be saved.