Garden of gethsemane

But one of the most meaningful–and prayer-provoking–spots in the Holy Land is the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives.

Lucy Dickens Fine Art - Oil painting of the garden of Gethsemane, part of a series of Holy Land paintings.

Gyula Benczúr, Christ on the Mount of Olives (1919)

Garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane is at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, most famous as the place where Jesus prayed and his disciples slept the night before Jesus' crucifixion.

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Christ, in the Garden of Gethsemane, suffered the pains of our sins so that we could have an atonement with our Father in Heaven.

Garden of Gethsemane

Garden of Gethsemane

On Holy Thursday, Christ and His disciples shared the Passover meal together. This final meal has come to be known as the ‘Last Supper’. During this meal, Christ washed the feet of His disciples and gave them a ‘new commandment’ to love one another. After the Last Supper, Christ made His way to the Garden of Gethsemane where He would pray and suffer in agony for the sins of the world. After many hours of suffering, Christ was betrayed by Judas and arrested by the Sanhedrin. There are so…