John 18:1
After Jesus had finished speaking, he and his disciples crossed over the Kidron brook and went into an olive grove.
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2Judas the betrayer knew the place, for Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.
Cross References
Genesis 3:23So the Lord God expelled them from the Garden of Eden. He sent Adam to cultivate the ground from which he'd been made.
2 Samuel 15:23All the people in the countryside were crying aloud as everyone with David passed by. They crossed the Kidron Valley with the king on the way toward the wilderness.
2 Kings 23:6He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord's Temple and took it to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it there, ground it into dust, and threw its dust over the graves of the ordinary people.
2 Chronicles 15:16King Asa also removed Maacah from her position as queen mother for making an offensive Asherah pole. Asa cut down her vile idol, crushed it up, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Jeremiah 31:40The entire valley, where the dead are buried and the trash is dumped, and all the fields from the Kidron Valley as far as the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the Lord. Jerusalem will never again be torn down or destroyed.
Matthew 26:36Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. He told them, “Sit down here while I go over there and pray.”
Matthew Henry on John 18:1
Hitherto this evangelist has recorded little of the history of Christ, only so far as was requisite to introduce his discourses; but now that the time drew nigh that Jesus must die he is very particular in relating the circumstances of his sufferings, and some which the others had omitted, especially his sayings. So far were his followers from being ashamed of his cross, or endeavouring to conceal it, that this was what, both by word and writing, they were most industrious to proclaim, and gloried in it. This… Read the whole commentary →