After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, and he and his disciples entered it — Jesus departs the upper room to a garden beyond the Kidron (variant: Cedron), the winter stream separating Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. The garden setting echoes the Genesis paradox: where creation's first humanity fell, the Last Adam enters willing obedience. Unlike the Synoptics' Gethsemane agony narrative, John presents Jesus' resolve and control from the outset, his submission already perfected in prayer.

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