After the Last Supper, Christ went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives to pray to God. He asked the three apostles who accompanied him to pray too, and left them alone. "And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them asleep for sorrow." (Luke 22:39-46) In the background we see three sleeping apostles. The soldiers, led by Judas, are already coming through the gate in the left background to arrest Christ. The compelling way in which Rembrandt captures Christ's doubt at this critical moment makes this one of his most impressive etchings. Usticke postulates that this etching was likely to have been one from the Passion series that Rembrandt was reportedly commissioned to do in his later years, and that as such, it is probably one of the artist's very last etchings.