‘Gethsemane’ means ‘olive press’. It speaks perhaps more vividly than any other place of the weight of suffering the Lord was to endure. He was crushed in a press of grief and sadness as he anticipated not only the pain of crucifixion the next day, but also the greater suffering of separation from his Father. Peter, James and John were selected to draw closest to the place where Jesus prayed. He told them to pray to be kept from ‘temptation’, meaning here ‘hard testing’. He