Welcome back to our Bible study on the Gospel of Mark.

Here we see Jesus enthroned on the cross.

What we've been waiting for since the beginning of the story,

as Jesus has come to make the way of the Lord,

and there was the summons at the beginning of Mark's Gospel

to prepare the way of the Lord. And John the Baptistons at the beginning of Mark's Gospel to prepare the way of the

Lord. And John the Baptist started that and then he was arrested and later we heard he was beheaded

and in a sense John the Baptist was the forerunner. He prepared the way even by his death. He was

foreshadowing the road and the way and the destiny of Jesus.

And so in this last episode, we're walking through the passion.

And we remember that Mark gave us the four watches of the night.

And those four watches were important to mark when that hour would come,

when the Lord would come, when the day of the Lord would appear.

And we saw those watches would be either at evening or at midnight or at cock crow or at morning. And we saw that Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples

in the evening. We saw how he took the bread and blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them.

We saw also the idea that he is taking, but not like

the kings before him. He is taking and giving himself, and he's inviting us to take from him.

His kingship is going to be altogether different, and therefore his enthronement will be altogether

different. His enthronement will be on the cross, as we'll see. That's where the passion is leading.

So now at the end of the supper, we're told in verse 26 of chapter 14 of Mark that they leave that upper room, and they go out, after they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

And they're going to go to Gassimony. There's a beautiful church there that the Franciscans run called the Church of All Nations, which is right there in Gisemone. And there is a cave, just a little bit down from there, that's still in that part of Gisemone, which is the Garden of Gassimony. And that cave is called the Cave of Betrayal. And it's been known from the earliest pilgrims in the 4th century, that that is where the disciples stayed that night,

and that's where Jesus would oftentimes stay with his disciples.

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