. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. ll of tombs of some importance hewn in the , at the base of the Mount of Olives, -were gardenswith caves to which fesus often resorted with His dis-ciples. These gardens belonged to different owners,andin one of them was an oil-press called Qethsemane,belonging to one of the friends of Our Lord. Crossingthe bridge over the brook Kedron, generally driedup at that spot, a roadicas reached, o-eershadowed bygreat pine-trees full of doves, and beneath the shadeof which were shops, fre
. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. ll of tombs of some importance hewn in the , at the base of the Mount of Olives, -were gardenswith caves to which fesus often resorted with His dis-ciples. These gardens belonged to different owners,andin one of them was an oil-press called Qethsemane,belonging to one of the friends of Our Lord. Crossingthe bridge over the brook Kedron, generally driedup at that spot, a roadicas reached, o-eershadowed bygreat pine-trees full of doves, and beneath the shadeof which were shops, frequented by those who wishedto buy suitable offerings for the Temple. After skirt-ing along the gardens the travellers crossed theslopes of the Mount of Olives by a path leading alsoto the summit of the neighbouring Mount Scopus,where Titus established his camp when he besieged fcrusalem. This same Mount Scopus teasreserved during the Feast of Pentecost as a resting-place for /he people of Galilee, and iticas on this account, no doubt. that fesus chose this route, reaching Bet h phage first, and going. Path from Qethsemane to the Mount of the Ascension. JESUS GOES OUT TO BETHANY IN THE EVENING 27 from thence to Bethany, ichich was on I lieright, about halt an hours wal/i farther ivas hj> this route, also, that the vene-rable David made his icay to the desert xceep-ing. with his head covered and his feet bareas he tied before his son Absalom, who hadusurped his throne. Once arrived at the sum-mit of the Mount of Olives, the travellerturning round had the whole of the Valley offehoshaphat spread out beneath Him, thatvalley already shrouded in the shadows of theeventide, with the grand walls of the Templebeyond dominating the -whole scene. Fromthis point could be made out all the most im-portant portions of the superb structure, withthe enceinte of the Temple itself, the zcallsen circling it, the massive supplementary build-ings dedicated to various purposes, whilst onthe
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