Consider the Lord’s pleading “in the days of his flesh” as a matter of fact. Do not dream of Him as though He were a phantom and of His prayers as if they were part of a mere show. He was a real man, and His prayers were as real as yours can be. Believe in Jesus as man. You would be upset with anyone who would diminish the glory of His Godhead, so do not yourself take away from Him the truth of His humanity. He was in very deed made flesh and dwelt among us. This was the case even when His apostles beheld His glory, “the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). We must get a firm grip of the true humanity or else we lose the sacrificial death, the resurrection, and all the rest; and the brotherhood of our Lord, which is a grand source of consolation, also disappears. Remember that He who sits at the right hand of God was once here in the likeness of sinful flesh. He who shall shortly come to judge the quick and the dead passed through a period of limitation, suffering weariness, since He was in human flesh. He knew poverty, sickness, reproach, and temptation. Inasmuch as He has passed through such days as these, He is able to be the High Priest of believers, who also are passing through the days of their flesh. We know too well that we are partakers of flesh and blood, and it is no small comfort that our Lord took part of the same.

–Charles Spurgeon, ed. Lance Wubbels, “The Power of Christ’s Tears,” 47-8