The Garden of Gethsemane
After the last supper, Jesus went to Mount Olives to pray. He brought his disciples with him. In John's account, they passed through Kidron Valley before reaching the olive groves (John 18: 1). Online sources cited that Kidron valley lay beside the temple of Jerusalem. The valley is lower from where the temple stands. A brook known as Kidron brook meanders through the valley. Jesus and his disciples needed to cross that brook to reach the olive groves at Mount Olives. Because of the terrain, the brook served as drainage for the blood of sacrificed animals, mostly sheep, from the Temple. During the Passover celebration held yearly, temple priests sacrificed huge number of animals for the purification ritual. Jews everywhere, even from afar, brought around 250,000 animals to be slaughtered for the ritual. Jesus knew that animals were killed at the temple for the purification ritual. As a devout Jew, he surely went to Jerusalem yearly to practice that ritual during his lifetime...