Gethsemane - Garden of Prayer

I doubt the garden of Gethsemane in first century Palestine looked or looks anything like the yards in Hunterdon County in early spring. However, today of all days, gardens and places of solitude come to mind as the scene of Christ's betrayal and arrest by Roman guards on the last evening of his earthly ministry. Few hymns capture the pathos of that place than the words James Montgomery penned in 1820:

Go to dark Gethsemane,
Ye that feel the tempter's power;
Your Redeemer's conflict see,
Watch with him one bitter hour.
Turn not from his griefs away,
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.