Loneliness.  If you have ever experienced it, you know.  Jesus felt it too on that night in Gethsemane.  Throughout his life he had enjoyed the crowds in the temple, and he had experienced the closeness of those who followed him day and night listening to his teachings and experiencing his miraculous power.  For three years he had savored the constant friendship of the twelve disciples, his closest chosen companions. Yet on the night that he needed them the most, in those final few hours of his life, they fell asleep. They abandoned him.  They failed him in his hour of need.