Having severed himself from God, man was not empowered but disempowered, not expanded but crushed, not liberated but enslaved. What was needed at that point was not only a Saviour who could repair what no human could fix, but also a teacher who could enter into the inner darkness and chaos in the human soul to make the crooked straight and retrain the devastated vineyard. Matthew 26: 36-42 is yet another passage which shows us, like the gospel o…