Last time we watched Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, I realized what was going on in the Garden of Gethsemane. When Satan was tempting Jesus, he used psalms. It's like the temptation in the wilderness, after Jesus' baptism, when the two of them were throwing psalm verses back and forth at each other. Psalm 38:4 and 49:7-8 were some of the words put into Satan's mouth in the movie.
In Weissel's words: "Seek whom ye may to be your stay, none can redeem his brother. All helpers failed." But Satan stopped before he got to "This Man prevailed -- the God-Man and none other."
... By Your fasting and temptation,
By Your agony and bloody sweat, ...
Help us, good Lord.
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