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Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive podcast. My name is Mike, and we have been walking with Jesus

during the final week of his life. We started out on a crowded street. Yesterday, we moved to a

center's table, and today we're going to follow him to a lonely garden. You know, Jesus and the guys

had borrowed an upstairs room to celebrate the Passover meal,

and to be sure, it was inspiring and a moving time, but it was also a very strange,

confusing night for all the guys in that room for a lot of different reasons.

And they left there, minus Judas, they had a unique bond together.

Think about these guys travel together for three Judas. They had a unique bond together. Think about these guys

traveled together for three years. They worked together, ate together, learned together, laugh

together, grieved together, hope together. And Matthew 26, verse 30 says, they closed out the evening

singing together. They sang a hymn, and then he went out to a place called

the Mount of Olives. Now the Mount of Olives where they were headed as a ridge about two miles long

and rises over like 2,600 feet on the east side of Jerusalem. I got to stand there a few years

ago and you can see the city and you can tell that Jesus could see his betrayers coming out of that city.

He could watch the whole thing unfolding from that vantage point.

But it's pretty gnarly looking.

I mean, just olive trees everywhere.

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