1. Gethsemane

2. Isaiah prophesied Jesus’ death
“It pleased the Lord to bruise him. When he shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed…For he shall bear their iniquities….He bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.”
I recently read a story about a man in Europe who owned a Rolls-Royce. Much to his surprise, his very expensive vehicle broke down and he needed a repairman. He called the company and they sent a repairman out from England on an airplane the next day to make the repair. After the mechanic was done, the vehicle work flawlessly once again. About a month went by in this man never saw a bill from the company. He decide to call Rolls-Royce and ask them if there had been a mistake and billing or may be a miscommunication about the address. The technician looked up the record on his vehicle and found no comments and no mention of repair. It was as if the vehicle never had a problem. I learned something about the Rolls-Royce company. Wanting to maintain a flawless record and superior performance, they will often make repairs to their vehicles without charging their clients. They want the reputation to surpass the customer’s expectations and will go to almost any cost to ensure that. It is a read that story, I thought about the final judgment. As we exercise our faith in Jesus Christ and become perfected in him, the judgment bar of God might work the same way. Yes, we’ve incurred some troubles during mortality and experiencing breakdowns, but our heavenly father sent his son Jesus Christ – the ultimate repair man – to help fix us. In the end, as he opens up the book of life, because of our faith in our Savior and his atonement, those wrongs will simply not be there.  His warranties are out of this world! He wants us to know that his son and his reputation have no boundaries.

3. What phrases in Matthew 26:36–39 describe how Jesus felt as He entered Gethsemane?

4. Definition of Gethsemane
Gethsemane comes from the Hebrew words geth [gath], meaning “press,” and semane [shemen], meaning “oil”. Gethsemane therefore means “oil press.” The garden of Gethsemane was a grove of olive trees where the Savior was “pressed” in that garden by the weight of the sins of all mankind until His blood flowed from His skin.

5. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
This is a Gethsemane
Crushing Stone
In ancient Israel, olive processing began with first crushing olives in an olive crusher. This is an authentic olive crusher at BYU's Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies.

6. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
This is a Gethsemane
An olive mill and an olive press dating from Roman times in Capernaum, Israel.

7. To produce olive oil, olives had to be crushed in a press
To produce olive oil, olives had to be crushed in a press. The olives were placed in burlap bags and flattened by a stone...

8. Then a huge crushing circular rock was rolled around on top, paced by a mule or an ox…

9. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
Another method used heavy wooden levers or screws twisting beams downward like a winch upon the stone. The effect was the same: pressure, pressure, pressure—until the oil flowed.
A Screw Press
A few hundred years after the time of Christ, the screw press was invented. The press beam required a large space to locate it in. A screw press could be located in a smaller confine. This screw press is located in ancient Jewish village of Qatzrin in Galilee.

10. (Truman G. Madsen, “The Olive Press,” Ensign, Dec 1982, 57)
The first liquid to appear is red, followed by the grey-green olive oil we are used to seeing.
The Jerusalem Center's Screw Press
(Truman G. Madsen, “The Olive Press,” Ensign, Dec 1982, 57)

11. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
The mash sacks are placed under the screw.

12. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
Oil oozes down into the collecting trays. Note in this picture and the next the color of the olive oil is brownish-red nearly resembling blood.

13. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
Matthew 26:40-41
Mark 14:32–34 
 Alma 7:11–13
How might knowing what the Savior suffered and why He suffered help you as you face trials, pains, and afflictions?
When have you felt the Savior succor you in a time of pain, sickness, or sorrow?
What principle can we learn from the Savior’s instructions to these Apostles?

14. Elder Neal A. Maxwell: “‘In Gethsemane, the suffering Jesus began to be “sore amazed” (Mark 14:33), or, in the Greek, “awestruck” and “astonished.”
“‘Imagine, Jehovah, the Creator of this and other worlds, “astonished”! … He had never personally known the exquisite and exacting process of an atonement before. Thus, when the agony came in its fulness, it was so much, much worse than even He with his unique intellect had ever imagined! …
“‘The cumulative weight of all mortal sins—past, present, and future—pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11–12; Isa. 53:3–5; Matt. 8:17.)’ (‘Willing to Submit,’ Ensign, May 1985, 72–73)” (New Testament Student Manual [Church Educational System manual, 2014], 130).

15. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
Listen to the song, Gethsemane.
GETHSEMANE children’s song:

16. The Symbolism of Olive Trees
Listen to the song, Gethsemane.

17. He knows what it felt like when your mother died of cancer--how it was for your mother, how it still is for you. He knows what it felt like to lose the student body election. He knows that moment when the brakes locked and the car started to skid. He experienced the slave ship sailing from Ghana toward Virginia. He experienced the gas chambers at Dachau. He experienced napalm in Vietnam.

18. It's our faith that he experienced everything-- absolutely everything
It's our faith that he experienced everything-- absolutely everything. Sometimes we don't think through the implications of that belief. We talk in great generalities about the sins of all humankind, about the suffering of the entire human family. But we don't experience pain in generalities. We experience it individually.

19. He understands your mother-pain when your five- year-old leaves for kindergarten, when a bully picks on your fifth-grader, when your daughter calls to say that the new baby has Down syndrome. He knows your mother-rage when a trusted babysitter sexually abuses your two-year-old, when someone gives your thirteen-year-old drugs, when someone seduces your seventeen-year-old. He knows all that. He's been there. He's been lower than all that.

20. He's not waiting for us to be perfect
He's not waiting for us to be perfect. Perfect people don't need a Savior. He came to save his people in their imperfections. He is the Lord of the living, and the living make mistakes. He's not embarrassed by us, angry at us, or shocked. He wants us in our brokenness, in our unhappiness, in our guilt and our grief. We know that this world is a dark place sometimes, but we need not walk in darkness. (Chieko N. Okazaki, Lighten Up, Preface; p. 174)

25. The Atonement
 Luke 22:39–44
Who helped the Savior have the strength to do Heavenly Father’s will?
What are some of the ways in which Heavenly Father might strengthen us?
Did the Savior ever offer any ‘average’ prayers? (look at vs 44)
FIRST HAND ACCOUNT: in Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-19

26. But if Not…
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told of an experience in which he visited with a young, newlywed couple in the hospital. The husband was suffering from cancer, and at the conclusion of the visit, he asked Elder Bednar for a blessing. Elder Bednar consented but first posed the following questions, which he had not planned on asking nor had considered previously: “Do you have the faith not to be healed? If it is the will of our Heavenly Father that you are transferred by death in your youth to the spirit world to continue your ministry, do you have the faith to submit to His will and not be healed?” Elder Bednar added: “We recognized a principle that applies to every devoted disciple: strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives—even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted” (“That We Might ‘Not … Shrink’ (D&C 19:18)” [Church Educational System devotional for young adults, Mar. 3, 2013]; LDS.org).

27. But if Not…
“Our scriptures and our history are replete with accounts of God’s great men and women who believed that He would deliver them, but if not, they demonstrated that they would trust and be true. “Our God will deliver us from ridicule and persecution, but if not. … Our God will deliver us from sickness and disease, but if not. … He will deliver us from loneliness, depression, or fear, but if not. … Our God will deliver us from threats, accusations, and insecurity, but if not. … He will deliver us from death or impairment of loved ones, but if not… We will trust in the Lord. “We will have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing that if we do all we can do, we will, in His time and in His way, be delivered and receive all that He has” (Elder Dennis E. Simmons“But If Not …” Ensign or Liahona, May 2004, 74–75).

28. David and Abigail 1 Samuel 25 1 Samuel 25 V 10-14
Next to vs 10-14, write down Eph 4:26, 1 Thes 5:15, 1 Peter 5:7
V 18-19, 23-28
V 32-33
What symbols of the Atonement are in this story?
Who could the ‘one young man’ (vs 14) symbolize?
The rest of the story: 1 Samuel 25:36-39
1 Samuel 25

29. Doctrine and Covenants 45:3-5

30. The Atonement
“For many years I thought of the Savior’s experience in the garden and on the cross as places where a large mass of sin was heaped upon Him. Through the words of prophets, however, my view has changed. The Atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us individually…
“He knows our weaknesses. But more than that, He knows how to help us if we come to Him in faith.”
Merrill J. Bateman
“A Pattern for All”
Ensign, October 2005

31. LDS Bible Video: Gethsemane

33. Gethsemane