Jesus Prays In The Garden

Jesus finishes praying with his faithful apostles.

Jesus prays in the garden. Jesus now tells them to keep awake and to pray. Jesus and the garden of gethsemane. Then after singing praises they go out to the mount of olives they head eastward to a garden called gethsemane where jesus is accustomed to goingonce they arrive at this pleasant spot among the olive trees jesus leaves eight of the apostles behind.

By the time jesus and his inner circle of disciples arrived in the garden it was approaching midnight. 1460 in roman catholic tradition the agony in the garden is the first sorrowful mystery of the rosary and the first station of the scriptural way of the cross. The story of jesus doubt and anguish at gethsemane literally oil press a small garden outside the eastern wall of jerusalem on the mount of olives has long been thought one of the more provocative passages in the gospels this passage launches the passion of jesus.

Agony in the garden jesus prays in the garden after the last supper while the disciples sleep and judas leads the mob by andrea mantegna c. With the passover meal complete jesus prays in the garden of gethsemane. He will urge them to pray that they enter not into temptation and then he will return to his own agonizing prayer.

Jesus will pray in the garden returning twice to his disciples only to find them sleeping. 96 in luke s account jesus was still speaking the words of verses 45 and 46 when judas and the arresting party arrived verse 47. Jesus and his disciples left the borrowed room and went to the garden of gethsemane an olive grove in the kidron valley on the lower western slope of the mount of olives.

Gethsemane means oil press in hebrew which indicates that it was an industrial oil operation. After leaving the upstairs room jesus and his apostles go out to the garden of geth semʹa ne. They have come here many times before.