We Are Redeemed

Oil on canvas | 11” x 14”

To redeem someone from something requires paying a ransom. See the Garden of Gethsemane now empty with only small remnants of what transpired when Jesus was taken captive. You feel the desolation as you see in the painting symbols of the treachery (thirty pieces of silver), the angry struggle of men (the sword), a shadowed angel looking on trying to understand why mankind is worth redeeming, and the empty cup symbolizing the ransom paid for all who believe. Imagine him now gone from this Garden but the symbols of what it took to redeem us remain.