Hey church family. Welcome back to Devo time. It is Holy Week and we started with a triumphal entry

and then we looked at the Lord's Supper and Jesus was serving his disciples by washing their feet

and I hope you've been serving like crazy. I hope I haven't been to And so now we're going to in Matthew, chapter 26, in the Garden of Gassimony.

The Bible says this, verse 36, then Jesus went with them to a place called Getsimini.

Gensimini is at the base of the Mount of Olives, and archaeologists found this huge olive press there.

Gassimini literally means the place of crushing, and olives were, I mean, they're a really big deal.

They're a big deal now.

They're a big deal in the first century, and there were three different crushings or presses that an olive would go through to get all of the olive oil that we all use.

The first, they'd take all these olives, they put them in a bag, they'd cinch them up,

and then they'd put them on this little, I don't know, it almost looks like a, it's a

basket. It kind of looks like a basketball hoop and somebody tied the net together at the bottom.

And just the weight of the olives pressing upon them would release the first or extra virgin

olive oil.

And then after that was gone, then they would take those olives,

and they would put it in this olive press or this olive grind,

and this, like, huge wheel kind of rides over it, and it presses out olive oil.

And then finally, the final crushing is they would take the pit of the olive.

They have these huge stones, and they take, with a pointy end on it, they would take that stone, and they would take the pit of the olive and have these huge stones and they'd take with a pointy end on it,

they would take that stone

and they would crush the pit.

And when Jesus, on the night that he was betrayed,

knowing that tomorrow he's going to the cross,

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