Welcome to our Form Now Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

Last time we started chapter 26 and now we're midway through that.

So we're going to pick up here in verse 36 of chapter 26 of the Gospel of Matthew.

So open your Bibles, join our Bible study here.

I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute.

And joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, my dear friend and professor of scripture here at the August Institute. And we're going to open up here right in the middle

of chapter 26 with verse 36. Jesus is in Gassamese. So we're going to talk about what happens

here in Gassimony. And as we, before we just jump into the text, you know, Michael, we've been

in the Holy Land together. I love going to the Holy Land.

And when I got a chance to spend a summer studying back in the mid-90s and I think it was 95 in Jerusalem,

I remember we would learn to go down to Gassimini because it was my favorite places to pray.

And I love the church and the cave there in the Garden of Gassimdi. And I remember I would try to go there at about 5 p.m., 4 p.m. after all the tourists were gone, and it was quiet. And I could just go. And that was the great thing about living in Jerusalem, is to go down. We would do daily mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. That's hard to beat. You start our mornings off in the Church of the Holy Sepulch for daily mass. But oftentimes ending that day with the Garden of Gassimini was pretty special. And so there's eight ancient trees in the Franciscan Garden there. And those eight trees are a symbol.

They were planted over a thousand years ago.

They've done some testing on three of the trees.

And three of those trees, and the other ones are just as ancient, came out to be probably about 1100 years old.

And so they're very ancient olive trees, but they represent the eight apostles that Jesus brings to the garden

and he has the eight stay, and then he takes three, Peter, James, and John a little further.

And so those eight trees represent the eight apostles who are...

I didn't know that. That's cool.

Who are to be stationary there. And then where the Church of All Nations is, that's where

Jesus is going to take Peter, James, and John, and then he'll go a little further to where the altar is and that rock under the altar in the Church of All Nations in Gisemite.

I got some pictures from our trip and you can see that rock. Why don't you say a few things about that?

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