The time had come for Christ to be delivered into the hands of His enemies. Jesus knew that they were coming to arrest Him before He had gone into the garden. He could have run because of this foreknowledge, but He chose to stay because He knew what He had to do to save His people. If you knew someone was coming to kill you for crimes you did not commit, wouldn't you run? Jesus could have taken the easy way out, but He went because He loved us so much. This was the only way we could be forgiven, and Jesus put our needs before Himself. This reminds us of His love, and it also reminds us of how we are to love others. We are to put their needs above our own, just as Christ did for us.
