In the final hours before his arrest, trial and execution, Jesus found himself alone in a garden, wrestling in prayer whilst his disciples fell asleep around him. This talk looks at the events in Gethsemane and considers what it was that made Jesus’ experience so unique.

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Below are a few of the key slides that accompanied the talk.

Left: Saint Stephen by Carlo Crivelli (1476). Right: Saint Stephen by Luca Signorelli (early 1500s)

Caravaggio: The Martyrdom of St Matthew (1600)

The martyrdom of Polycarp (left) and Ignatius of Antioch (right)

Gethsemane is the story of two gardens