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Matthew 26:36 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
According to this article all the trees around Jerusalem were cut down by the Romans in 70AD.
Jesus wouldn't give Himself up. That would have been suicide, according to one of the commentaries. Judas knew Gethsemane. That's why Jesus chose that garden. If Jesus chose a place Judas was unfamiliar with, it would have been cowardly.
The commentary says that in order to get to the garden, Jesus would have crossed the Brook Kidron. According to the commentary, He would have seen the full moon of the Passover reflected in a stream flowing red with sacrificial blood from the temple.
Jesus was distressed at the spiritual horror waiting for Him on the cross. Jesus would stand in the place of guilty sinners and receive all the spiritual punishment sinners deserve.
He took Peter, James and John the brother of James [the two sons of Zebedee] with Him, leaving the rest of the disciples behind. These were the same men who had gone with Him in Matthew 17 for the Transfiguration. He trusted them.
He asked these men, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, to "Stay here and keep watch with me."
Jesus knew that Judas was on the way to the Pharisees.
Jesus knew what was going to happen to Him.
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