There is even a lesson on love implicit here in the example of Christ: ‘I will not talk much with you.’ He has only a little more to say.
If they are just setting out to arrest him, why does not the Lord go somewhere else this coming night? Why is it necessary for him to go to the place where Judas thinks he will go? Why does he not lead the disciples somewhere else and that will completely thwart the arrest party? Because he is going voluntarily to Calvary. Because it is the will of the Father and the Spirit and the Son. The three persons of the Godhead have determined in eternity that Calvary will take place, that Christ will be roughly arrested, bound, tried, executed. His enemies had never been able to take him before but now he will allow it.