This next week we will focus on Jesus' time in the Garden of Gethsemane. This past week we experienced the Passover Seder with Jesus and the disciples in the Upper Room. After the supper was over, they took what was about a 25 minute walk to the foot of the Mount of Olives to the Garden there known as Gethsemane, "the Olive Press." It was rocky and filled with olive trees like the one pictured here. It was likely around 11:30 when they arrived. Jesus came here, the scriptures tell us, to pray. He went to pray about the agony he felt about what was to happen to him. It is comforting to you that even Jesus prayed about his fear, anxiety and agony in the face of death?
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