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Gethsemane – the First Pressing of the Christ

The painting is trying to convey something of Jesus mental, emotional & spiritual torture in Gethsemane; Matthew 26 v 36. Christ is not clothed, symbolising that there are no secrets from God & that He has taken on the human likeness completely & has no secret defence, He is vulnerable to the devil. The Bible tells us that Christ literally sweated blood, like the first pressing of olive oil.