Perhaps the Gethsemane prayer was the prayer remembered by the Hebrew author when he wrote this summary of the prayers of Jesus: “In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears…” (Heb. 5:7).
There are many qualities of Jesus’ prayers which the Hebrew author might have memorialized: their frequency, their other-centeredness, their intimacy, etc. But what he remembers most is that Jesus prayed “with loud cries and tears.” What he finds most important is that Jesus lamented. You have his permission to sob in your supplications.
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