Gethsemane

About this audio guide

This guide to Gethsemane in Jerusalem follows scientists drilling a slow, careful corer into an ancient olive trunk, trying to answer a question their own science cannot fully settle: whether these are the very trees under which a man once knelt on the night he knew soldiers were coming. It traces the Gospel account of that night at the foot of the Mount of Olives, the follower who knew where to lead the arresting party, and how the grove survived Rome's siege of Jerusalem in the year seventy. Stand close to the bark in front of you as you listen.