The path that Jesus accepted to get to Calvary had to first pass through the garden of Gethsemane (גת שמנים olive press in Hebrew ). It was here that Jesus, in his humanity, experienced true “fear, distress, anguish and sorrow.” These emotions that Jesus felt that night were real. According to James Keating and Thomas White, who used Thomas Aquinas, assert that Jesus has two natures, human and divine. Both were suffering from grief. They explain that all humans have two wills, which are caught in a web of tensions. The first will is our sensitive will, which contains our emotions. The second is our rational will, where our rational decisions are made. Realizing that Jesus is fully human, he put both wills to work in Gethsemane. In Jesus' first prayer we see his sensitive will begging his father to find another way. Jesus felt real fear at this point, because no one wants to die. Yet in Jesus' second prayer, his rational will takes over as he accepts the will of the Father. In Jesus there is also a divine will. This divine will was also painful, because of the many sins of humanity. His divine will and his rational will conform perfectly, according to Keating and White. Therefore, they suppose that Jesus, in his first prayer, was struck by the agony of his sensitive and divine will. Together, these two wills overwhelmed the rational will of Jesus. But in the end, his rational will got the better of his sensitive will and his divine will. Even though the intense crisis in the garden that Jesus experienced was not imposed on him by his Father, the experience was necessary. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to uncover the events that occurred in Gethsemane in an attempt to show why it was necessary for Jesus to suffer. Jesus at the conclusion...... middle of article ......lew , (London: Cambridge University Press, 1963). Cobern, Camden, Gethsemane, The Biblical World, Vol. 54, No. 2 (March 1920). Kairos, online source: http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/2540.htm. Keating, James and White, Thomas, Ed., Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering, (Grand Rapids: William Eerdmans Publishing, 2009). Leclerc, Thomas, Introduction to the Prophets, (New York: Paulist Press, 2007). Mounce, Robert, Matthew, (Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishing, 1985). Senior, Donald, Matthew, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998). Senior, Donald, The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1985). Smith, Robert, Augsburg Commentary - Matthew, (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1989). Tasker, Randolph, Ed., The Gospel According to St. Matthew, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1981).