Ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone.
John 16:2
"Few had fellowship with the sorrows of Gethsemane.
To twelve, nay, to
eleven only was the privilege given to enter Gethsemane and see this
great sight.
Out of the eleven, eight were left at a distance; they had
fellowship, but not of that intimate sort to which men greatly beloved
are admitted.
Only three highly favored ones could approach the veil of
our Lord’s mysterious sorrow: within that veil even these must not
intrude; a stone's-cast distance must be left between.
He must tread the
wine-press alone, and of the people there must be none with him.
Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, represent the few eminent,
experienced saints, who may be written down as “Fathers;” these having
done business on great waters, can in some degree measure the huge
Atlantic waves of their Redeemer’s passion.
*To some selected spirits it
is given, for the good of others, and to 
strengthen them for future,
special, and tremendous conflict, to enter the inner circle and hear the
pleadings of the suffering High Priest; they have fellowship with him
in his sufferings, and are made conformable unto his death.
Yet even
these cannot penetrate the secret places of the Savior’s woe. “Thine
unknown sufferings” is the remarkable expression of the Greek liturgy:
there was an inner chamber in our Master’s grief, shut out from human
knowledge and fellowship. There Jesus is “left alone.”
Charles Spurgeon
