In Matthew and Mark, they go to a place called Guest Semana in Greek, a little garden of

all of trees.

In John's Gospel, he straight up just calls it a garden.

In this garden, Jesus faces his last test.

Here he uses the word.

He says that he's entering into the test.

This is John at the Bible Project.

Today, we're having our final conversation on the theme of trees in the Bible.

This conversation began in a garden with Adam and Eve surrounded by trees.

The Tree of Life and also a Tree of Testing, the Tree of Knowing, Good and Bad.

We begin this episode with the new Adam, and he's in a new garden presented with a choice.

So you do what seems wise in your own eyes, which is to take the tree that you think in

your own wisdom will give you life, or will you take of this tree that is true life, but

that in the later design patterns is kind of scary, because it means you could die.

In this macro theme of the tree, he's looking around to all of these people who have failed

their own individual tests and the collective tests, creating death in the world, and so

he will walk into death on purpose.

The Garden of Gethsemane is a beautiful image.

Jesus, the new Adam, standing before his own tests, and he chooses what we've not been

able to choose ourselves, to follow the will of the Father perfectly, and his choice changed

history.

Thanks for joining us.

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