Gethsemane

What this place is

• Holy site — where the Jerusalem church came down by candlelight on the night of Holy Thursday in the 380s to hear the gospel of the arrest read on the spot

Who is recorded here

• Jesus passion · AD 30

What happened here

• Agony in Gethsemane AD 30
• Arrest of Jesus AD 30

In art

• The Prayer in the Garden — Lorenzo Ghiberti (1443)
• Agony in the Garden — Andrea Mantegna (1459)
• Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist — Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano (1490)
• Agony in the Garden — Gerard David (1510)
• Agony in the Garden — Jan Polack (1520)

About the place

Gethsemane is a garden as well as a courtyard at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion. The garden is a place of great resonance in Christianity.

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