Luke 22:39

39-48. The Agony in the Garden.

39. And he came out St Luke here omits all the touching incidents which St John alone records the discourses so "rarely mixed of sadness and joys, and studded with mysteries as with emeralds Peter's question, "Lord, whither goest thou?"; the melancholy remark of Thomas about the way; Philip's "Lord, shew us the Father;" the perplexed enquiry of Judas Lebbaeus; the rising from the Table; the Parable of the Vine and the Branches, perhaps suggested by the trellised vine under which they passed out into the moonlight; and the great High Priest's prayer.

to the mount of Olives down the valley over the brook, or, rather, dry wady of the Kedron, and then up the green slope beyond it to the garden or small farm (χωρίον )of Gethsemane, "the oil press," which is about half a mile from the city. Probably (John 18:2 )it belonged to a disciple; possibly to St Mark. Judas knew the spot, and had ascertained that Jesus was going there. He had gone out to get the band necessary for His arrest.

followed him The walk would be under the full Paschal moon amid the deep hush that falls over an Oriental city at night. The only recorded