Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-ch chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

Jesus in the Garden, as we pick up in John, chapter 18, verse one.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn to John's Gospel chapter 18?

Jesus has finished his prayer, which we mentioned last week should properly be entitled

the Lord's Prayer. And now from wherever this

prayer was offered, maybe it was on the temple precincts itself as the temple gates were

open all night during the time of Passover so people could come at any time and worship God.

But having finished his prayer, he now crosses the Brooke Kidron with his disciples

that he might go over to a place on the Mount of Olives where Jesus went often with his disciples

into a garden known as Gassimony.

In those days, the wealthy people of Jerusalem

had private gardens on the Mount of Olives.

It could be that one of these persons who liked Jesus had given him the key to the gate of his

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