This is Curtis' favorite place of quiet and restoration. This place of peace is only possible because of Christ's agony (see the next paragraph).Gethsemane (from the Hebrew "Gat Shemanim", which means "oil press") was the garden where Jesus and his disciples retreated to pray after the Last Supper, the night before he was crucified. According to Luke 22:43–44, Jesus' anguish in Gethsemane was so deep that "his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." As the oil is pressed out of the olives so Christ's blood was pressed out of Him by agony which we will never know.
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