"He could not, with whatever reservation about the Father’s will, have prayed that the cup might pass and simultaneously known that it would not."

"Lest any trial incident to humanity should be lacking, the torments of hope - of suspense, anxiety - were at the last moment loosed upon Him - the supposed possibility that, after all, He might, He just conceivably might, be spared the supreme horror. There was precedent. Isaac had been spared: he too at the last moment, he also against all apparent probability. It was not quite impossible..." - CS Lewis