Dear Brother Gorton, I read with interest your response to a question related to the atonement of Christ. Would you please enlarge upon that answer by replying to my inquiry? My understanding of the Savior’s experiences during the last few hours of his mortal life is that our sins were paid for by His unspeakable agony in Gethsemane, and his torturous death upon the cross was solely for the purpose of overcoming physical death; He being the “first fruits of the resurrection.”  However, your answer and quote from 1 John indicate Jesus’ death on the cross was part of the needed price of the redemption of mankind from sin, and not Gethsemane alone.  Please explain the purpose for these two events in the mission of Jesus. Gratefully, Richard E. Davis