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Hello and welcome to the truth seekers podcast a truth seeker is someone who wants to know the truth they search for what's true and they won't rest until they find it. I am a true seeker and if you are

two then you've come to the right place where we will search for truth each week

in the stories of the Bible. We have been walking through the days of Holy Week and have come to Good Friday.

Why is it called Good Friday you ask?

Well I'm going to tell you but first let's pick up where we left off yesterday.

Jesus had just finished his meal with his disciples.

They walked together to a garden called Gethsemane.

Can you say Gethsemane?

It was a quiet place they knew and loved at the foot of the mount of olives. The Garden of Gethsemane was a garden of olive trees.

Did you know that olives grow on trees? Have you ever eaten an olive?

Or maybe you've seen your mom or grandma cooking with olive oil?

Olive oil comes from olives that have been crushed and pressed down

so the oil can be drained from them.

The name Gethsemai actually means olive press,

so it is likely there was an olive press nearby where they would press and crush the

olives to make olive oil. Well it was in this garden that Jesus and his disciples walked that night.

Jesus said to his disciples,

Stay here for a little while while I go and pray.

Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John. Then he said to them,

My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.

Stay here and keep watch with me.

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