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  Homeland of Jesus
Gethsemane is one of the sacred places of the Holy Land-the place where on the night of Holy Thursday, Jesus, in a great agony, his soul sorrowful unto death, lay prostrate as if totally exhausted, sweated blood and prayed to the Father.
The garden of Gethsemane lies at the foot of the Mount of Olives, situated on the opposite side of the Kidron valley, lying adjacent to the eastern wall of the city of Jerusalem.
In the garden of Gethsemane there are two places which attract the attention of the visitors.
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  Gethsemane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gethsemane (also spelled Gethsemani) was the garden where, according to the Bible and Christian traditions, Jesus prayed the night before he was crucified.
Located by the garden is the Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of the Agony.
The name 'Gethsemane' is given in the Greek of the Gospels (Matthew 26:36 and Mark 14:32) as Γεθσημανι (Gethsêmani).
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 Gethsemane
The Arrest of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, from the triptych "The Temptation of St. Anthony," Hieronymous Bosch, c.
The Agony in the Garden, Hans Holbein the Elder, 1505.
The Agony in the Garden, Simon Bening, 1525.
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 GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The meaning of the word gethsemane in Aramaic is olive-oil press, indicating that the slopes of the Mount of Olives were indeed covered with olive trees, and that agricultural activities were performed here, very close to the city of Jerusalem.
The caves and rocks of the garden were well known to the small group of Jesus’ disciples, who passed them regularly on their way in and out of Jerusalem.
The CHURCH OF MARY MAGDALENE and the GROTTO OF THE GETHSEMANE.
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The Garden of Gethsemane, through the city gates over steep sides of the ravine across the wady of the Kedron, half a mile from the city walls.
The "garden" was a small plantation of olive trees containing on olive press.
He knew a secret garden of the soul of which the Garden of Gethsemane, beyond the brook Kedron, is but a type.
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 Gethsemane: The Garden of Olives
One, commonly called "The Garden of Olives" is about 1200 square metres in area and is situated to the right of the path up the mountain, extending between this path, and around the basilica of the Agony, to the Jericho road.
Nevertheless, for the majority of pilgrims, the Garden of Olives was restricted to the place where the ancient olive trees grew, the trees which "common opinion" and "the tradition of the country" dated back to the time of Christ.
Despite notices to the contrary, the enclosed garden was turned into flower beds, probably as a reminder of the "flowery garden" of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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 Garden of Gethsemane: base of Mt
Garden of Gethsemane: base of Mt. of Olives.
Grotto of Gethsemane: located near the Tomb of the Virgin, which lies in the Church of (Mary's) Assumption.
Gethsemane is from the Aramaic gath-shamnah, which means oil press (there are traces here of such a press from before the Christian era).
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 Sun.Star Bacolod - Arinday: A reminder--the Garden of Gethsemane
THE Garden of Gethsemane with its perfumed blossoms seems to have yielded to the sudden embrace of summer.
It is a crazy idea to think of Congress as a vast garden of Gethsemane, but one could not help entertain such morbid thought given the attitude of some of them on such vital issues like the VAT, responsible parenthood and population management, and other national concerns.
The crimson-tainted robe of Jesus as he was led to the Calvary hills is a strong reminder to all those who possess the power and the glory that the Son of Man's sacrifices could be seen on the wretchedness and pain of plain folks, praying endlessly for liberation from their life of hell on earth.
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 The Basilica of the Agony at the Garden of Gethsemane
Built in 1924 on the traditional site of the Garden of Gethsemane, the Basilica of the Agony enshrines a section of bedrock identified as the place where Jesus prayed alone in the garden on the night of his arrest.
Although it is not certain that this is the exact spot, the setting does fit the Gospel description, and the present church, designed by the architect Antonio Barluzzi, rests on the foundations of two earlier shrines: a 12th-century Crusader chapel, abandoned in 1345; and a 4th-century Byzantine basilica, destroyed by the earthquake in 746.
In the garden is an open altar, placed there by the Franciscan fathers in an ecumenical gesture to the Anglican community, which holds Maundy Thursday services there on the eve of Good Friday.
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The Garden of Gethsemane is located across the Kidron valley to the east of Jerusalem and on the western slope of the Mount of Olives.
The word Gethsemane means "oil press" or "olive press" which leads scholars to believe that the garden was a grove of olive trees in which was located an oil press.
The Garden of Gethsemane was a familiar place to Jesus, a place he came often for prayer and solitude.
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 Garden of Gethsemane (Life in the Holy Land)
A tradition, at least as old as the fourth century, identifies this plot of ground with the garden to which Jesus was wont to retire with His disciples.
For nearly sixteen hundred years this Garden of Gethsemane, in the Valley of Kedron, has been fixed by the devout as the place of the prayer of our Savior at the time of his "agony" just before his death.
The Valley of Kedron (Jehoshaphat) is here deep and narrow, and Gethsemane occupies about an acre of ground, to the north of which are rugged and barren heights in which the kings of Jerusalem are buried.
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 Vintage Postcards
Entrance to the Garden was through the room of the Weavers, where architecture, furnishings, crafts and costumed attendants were replicas of those familiar to Christ in first century Jerusalem.
The Garden was first conceived by Clifford E. Clinton in 1943, when he commissioned sculptor, Marshall Lakey to fashion the life-sized figure of Christ, kneeling in prayer.
The mural behind Christ depicting the City of Jerusalem and the Garden of Gethsemane was painted by Einar Petersen, the artist who restored the huge Hall of the Crucifixion mural at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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 Paradox Poetry.com - In The Garden Of Gethsemane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Paradox Poetry.com - In The Garden Of Gethsemane
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 Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Art of the Garden
Later that year he was diagnosed as HIV positive, and while his public life became increasingly dedicated to gay rights issues, he devoted his private life to the creation of a garden at Prospect Cottage, a fisherman’s house on a huge bank of shingle on the Kent coast.
Jarman was a relatively inexperienced gardener, and given the inhospitable conditions at Dungeness he initially had little hope of establishing a garden.
Jarman’s garden featured in his 1989 film War Requiem, and in the following year was the focal point of The Garden, ‘a parable about the cruel and unnecessary perversion of innocence’ where it figured both as the Garden of Eden and the garden at Gethsemane.
www.tate.org.uk /britain/exhibitions/artofthegarden/artistsgardens_jarman.htm   (240 words)

  
 bible.org: The Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-46)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Second, the measure of Christ’s agony in Gethsemane is the measure of man’s sinfulness and of its disastrous and painful consequences.
Third, the measure of Christ’s agony in Gethsemane is the measure of the suffering which Christ endured in bearing the wrath of God toward sinners at Calvary.
The immensity of Christ’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane is in direct proportion to the agony which unsaved men and women will face in hell, when they drink of the “cup” of God’s wrath.
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 Gethsemane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John did not refer to Gethsemane but simply said that the Savior and his disciples went "over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples" (John 18:1).
John called the place a "garden." The Greek word translated "garden" is kepos which means "a cultivated tract of land." The garden - or cultivated tract of land - appears to have been an olive orchard.
Gethsemane was located on the Mt of Olives which was east of Jerusalem (No. 11).
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 Garden of Gethsemane
The Garden of Gethsemane is at the foot of the Mount of Olives, within the walled grounds of the Church of all Nations (also known as the Church of the Agony).
The Garden of Gethsemane is where Jesus prayed the night of his betrayal and arrest (Mark 14:32-50).
According to the record in Luke, Christ’s despair in Gethsemane was so deep that he sweat drops of blood (Luke 22:43-44).
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 Grace Lutheran Church / Stained-Glass Windows: Garden of Gethsemane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
n the middle of the south side of the Grace sanctuary is the stained-glass window that represents a most popular Christian piety: Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane.
One does not find a description of how and where Jesus prayed at the Garden of Gethsemane in scripture, but the image of Jesus praying at the rock is very old.
When one goes to Jerusalem, you may visit an ancient church built in the Garden of Gethsemane, on the slope of the Mount of Olives, that uses the large rock as its altar.
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 A Certain Jesus - Vol. 1 Chapter 14
Darkness veiled the whole garden, the old oil press and the sleeping bodies… From afar, the shrieking sounds of the nocturnal birds served as a warning during the night….
      Gethsemane was a garden composed of several gardens extending through the fertile slopes of the Mount of Olives, separated from Jerusalem by the Cedron.
In Aramaic, Gethsemane means “oil press,” probably because of the presence in this area of olive presses for the trees growing on the mountain.
www.bible.claret.org /liturgy/daily/acj/CycleB/Ch_112.htm   (2279 words)

  
 Garden of Gethsemane, Tucson
The Garden of Gethsemane in Tucson is the work of artist Felix Lucero, who was wounded in WWI and vowed that if he recovered, he would create religious sculptures.
In the garden can be seen his images of Christ at the Last Supper, on the Cross and with the Holy Family.
The Garden of Gethsemane has been a Tucson landmark since 1945 and is maintained by the Knights of Columbus.
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 Jerusalem - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
The Garden Tomb: When the British General Gordon visited Jerusalem in 1883, he became impressed with the topography of an area near the northern wall of the city just north of the Damascus gate, and particularly with the skull-like appearance of a limestone bluff.
Gethsemane: INDEX The name of this historic site means "olive press," appropriately reflecting the presence of extensive olive groves on this western slope of the Mount of Olives.
After celebrating the last Passover with His disciples, Jesus led them to the Garden of Gethsemane on the lower slope of the mountain where He was arrested (Matt 26:30).
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 Garden of Gethsemane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And finally when the atoning agonies had taken their toll, when the victory had been won, when the Son of God had fulfilled the will of God in all things he said "It is finished" and he voluntarily gave up the ghost.
The Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the empty Tomb where Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene.
Then in Gethsemane we will see the Son of God ransom man from the temporal and spiritual death which came to us because of the fall.
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 Sermon Outlines - Sermons From Matthew - The Garden Of Gethsemane (26:36-46)
A garden outside the city, across the Kidron brook and on the Mount of Olives b.
Note the contrast between the Garden of Eden, and the Garden of Gethsemane...
So "The Garden Of Gethsemane" was a place of both suffering and strength...
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 Garden of Gethsemane
the garden of gethsemane was where the body of jesus christ was laid to rest in a cave tomb the same tomb that he ressurected from...
The garden was located on the lower slop of the Mount of Olives.
It does not say it was the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus was buried.
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 Gethsemane on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
(gĕthsĕm´enē), olive grove or garden, E of Jerusalem, near the foot of the Mount of Olives.
Gethsemane as the place we are put to the test.(Church)
A replica of the Garden of Gethsemane at the New Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, Florida.
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 Mormonism and the atonement of Jesus
Was it on the Cross of Calvary or in the Garden of Gethsemane?
The Garden is where He suffered greatly in prayer because He did not want to go through the coming ordeal of His beating and crucifixion.
It is not the blood that He sweat in the Garden that cleanses us of our sins, but the blood that was shed in the public display of the propitiatory sacrifice on the cross that cleanses us.
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 A Leisurely Walk to the Garden of Gethsemane
“Gethsemane” is derived from the Aramaic word for “oil press.” It was here in the Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus was pressed so that he sweat blood.
It’s part of the authentic Garden of Gethsemane, although its trees are younger.
For many pilgrims, private time at the Garden of Gethsemane is a highlight of their spiritual journey.
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 What happened in the Garden of Gethsemane?
Answer: The garden at Gethsemane, literally “oil-press,” is located on a slope of the Mount of Olives just across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem.
The most famous events at Gethsemane occurred on the night before His crucifixion when Jesus was betrayed.
The events that occurred in the Garden of Gethsemane have reverberated down through the centuries.
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