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Gethsemane
The word for the garden is from the Aramaic word gat-smane, which means oil press, and indeed the alternate name was the garden of olives. Almost surely there would have been an olive press nearby to extract the oil. “Agony” was a technical term used at the time for athletes, much like the warm-up we […]