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GETHSEMANE (Hebr. for " oil-press ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 911 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GETHSEMANE (Hebr. for " oil-
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press ")  , the
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place to which Jesus and His disciples withdrew on the
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eve of the Crucifixion . It was evidently an enclosed piece of ground, a
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plantation rather than a
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garden in our sense of the word . It
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lay
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east of the Kidron and on the
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lower slope of the
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mount of
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Olives, at the
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foot of which is the traditional site dating from the 4th
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century and now possessed by the
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Franciscans . The Grotto of the Agony, a fewhundred yards farther
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north, is an
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ancient
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cave-cistern, now a Latin
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sanctuary .

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