Just hours away from death, Jesus goes off with three of his closest friends to pray. He knows the coming hours will bring immeasurable pain, agony, and loneliness. The agony of just knowing what is going to happen is enough to cause anyone else to collapse under such weight. Now more than ever He needs His companions to stay alert and vigilant, He needs to know, at least right now He is not alone. He knows that in a few hours the union between the Godhead, which had never been severed from before time, was about to be broken.