Garden of Gethsemane
Garden of Gethsemane
Media: Ink & Water color on canvas
Size: 132(W)x 102(H)cm
Production: 2008
Painting code: Lo0007
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Description:
Trying to see Jesus in garden
Content: Love by first sight of God’s beauty in the garden. As the glimpse of light piercing into the church door, I see God through these old olive trees. These olive trees were witnesses to the cries of Jesus just before his arrest. Jesus’ pains vividly spelt out in these thick hollowly trunks. Trees, of over 2000 years of age, were grown out of Jesus’s tear drops amidst His prayers in the garden.
Background: Garden of Gethsemane is located across the Kidron Valley at the feet of the Mount of Olives overlooking the Temple Mount. Gethsemane means "olive press." In the New Testament, Jesus and His disciples sang hymns and went out to the Mount of Olives (Mt 26:30; Mk 14:26), to the Garden of Gethsemane (Mt 26:36; Mk 14:32). In this garden, Jesus was betrayed by Judas and delivered into the hands of His enemies. Jesus frequently retreated there amongst its cool and shady olive trees, and even stayed there immediately before the Passover (Luke 21:37). After the Last Supper, `He came out, and went, as was His custom, to the Mount of Olives' (Luke 22:39), `and they went to a place which was called Gethsemane' (Mark 14:32)
Haggai 2:9 And in this place, I will give peace.
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