Why was Jesus troubled so much?

[LaSalle]

I wonder why it is we emphasize that Jesus suffered so much. While I fully believe that He is God who came down and humbled Himself to be man and to die for our sins and we also know that as Man, he was tortured badly … but every time I hear and see how everyone highlights how much He suffered, I cannot help but think …"yeah but He is God. He is sacrificing Himself for all of mankind. He knows He is going straight to heaven. He knows how it’ll all turn out … "

What could have been troubling Jesus so much during the agony in the garden? Again … He knew how everything would turn out.

Compare that to any of His martyrs who may have died for the faith, while they had a strong hope of heaven, no one had His kind of certainty. Or compare to someone who sacrifices himself for one or two people … some of them not even Christians.

Why do we emphasize Jesus’ suffering when there have been many who have suffered as much, if not more and for much much less than all of mankind?

 

[Lisa44]

I wonder why it is we emphasize that Jesus suffered so much. While I fully believe that He is God who came down and humbled Himself to be man and to die for our sins and we also know that as Man, he was tortured badly … but every time I hear and see how everyone highlights how much He suffered, I cannot help but think …"yeah but He is God. He is sacrificing Himself for all of mankind. He knows He is going straight to heaven. He knows how it’ll all turn out … "

What could have been troubling Jesus so much during the agony in the garden? Again … He knew how everything would turn out.

Compare that to any of His martyrs who may have died for the faith, while they had a strong hope of heaven, no one had His kind of certainty. Or compare to someone who sacrifices himself for one or two people … some of them not even Christians.

Why do we emphasize Jesus’ suffering when there have been many who have suffered as much, if not more and for much much less than all of mankind?

I think, you are forgetting that he was also human. Yes, he was divine, but here on earth he lived as a human.

As for others suffering more, I don’t know about that?
I can’t think of anyone else who compares to Jesus can you? He didn’t have anyone to follow, and he didn’t have any assurance (like he gave his followers an assurance). He was really out there on his own battling errors in all systems of thought. Sure he was a Jew and had that, but all his people had it wrong. Who could he go to to tell him the truth? No one, he was the truth.

 

[Fidelis]

As Lisa44 pointed out, in addition to be fully divine Jesus was fully human, both physically and in his psychological make up. No matter how he knew it would turn out, he still had to go through the horrible mental anguish and especially physical abuse, torture, humiliation and death of his arrest, trials, scourging, mocking, and crucifixion.

Watch Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” and consider, even if you knew how it would turn out, the prospect of facing what Jesus when through. Would you not be at least “troubled”?

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[Nita]

What could have been troubling Jesus so much during the agony in the garden? Again … He knew how everything would turn out.

That “knowing” was very probably His greatest suffering. He knew the many that would reject His offer of salvation. As God, He knew them not in some anonymous way, but personally - each one - as an individual He created and loved.

I don’t know if you’re a parent or not. But imagine if there was a huge fire coming and you offered your child a way out. He refused, and you could actually see him entering into and suffering the torture of the flames. That might give you an idea of the agony Jesus was experiencing (in addition others).

Why do we emphasize Jesus’ suffering when there have been many who have suffered as much, if not more and for much much less than all of mankind?

Even the saints, who were willing to die for others, did not experience love as deep as Our Lord’s for us. And I think you would agree, the deeper the love, the greater the anguish would be.

It has also been held that satan and his minions were around at the time of the crucifixion. Luke notes that after the temptations Jesus underwent in the wilderness, satan “departed from Him until an opportune time” (Lk 4:13) That “opportune time” was no doubt the time of the crucifixion.

When I read Psalm 22 about the suffering of the Messiah, there are verses that seem to represent to me the supernatural torment that may have been taking place.

Ps. 22:12-13 Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

(St. Peter refers to satan as a “roaring lion” in 1 Peter 5:8)​

 

[allhers]

He bore the pain, and sufferings of the ENTIRE WORLD, not just His own, past, present and future, you think anyone else could do that?

He took that upon Himself, He felt and thought and saw it all. Yet He choose to die for love of us. Each one of us as though we were the only person in the entire world. No wonder He sweat blood literally. Who but God could have lived through that and died for that?

Satan was right there, tempting HIM (in vain) but still tempting Him to give it up and not die for that, telling Him that His love for us was ridiclous and not worth it. God thinks we are worth it. Don’t we all owe our very lives to HIM?

Could you imagine seeing all, feeling all that and suffering all that and still thinking we all were worth it? It wasn’t Himself He was concerned about.