Welcome to Truth for Life weekend.

We are beginning a new series that will help us prepare for Easter by considering Jesus'

journey to the cross.

And today we will discover what the arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane revealed about

Jesus and about his betrayer, Judas.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the Gospel of John, we are in chapter 18.

The central figures in the verses that we have read are clearly those of both Jesus and

Judas.

Judas whose activities here are a tragic indication of treachery and Jesus whose approach

to the circumstances is a wonderful illustration of majesty.

You will notice that we are told the time reference, it was when Jesus had finished praying, and

then we are told when he had finished praying, he left his disciples and crossed the

Kedron Valley and on the other side there was an olive grove and he and his disciples went

into it.

Now it is in this olive grove, in this garden, that Judas, the betrayer, then comes to

do his infamous work.

Now the fact that it was in a garden is not significant in and of itself, but this wasn't

simply a garden or some garden.

It was as John tells us, a garden that the disciples knew very well, that Judas himself knew

well because this garden was a place of fellowship.

It was a place of relaxation for Jesus and his disciples.

It was a place of communion and it was a place doubtless of many happy memories.

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