John 18:1,2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He went forth with his disciples— When the intercessory prayer was ended, Jesus and his disciples came down from the mount of Olives into a field below, called Gethsemane. Through this field the brook Cedron ran, and in it, on the other side of the brook, was a garden, commonly called by the name of the Garden of Gethsemane; concerning which see the note on Matthew 26:36. It was the brook Cedron, which David, a type of Christ, went over with the people, weeping, in his flight from Absalom. Jesus we are told resorted to the garden of Gethsemane, which probably belonged to one of Christ's friends, and to which he had a liberty of retiring whenever he pleased: here accordingly he often used to spend some considerable time in prayer and pious converse, in the evenings or nights, after his indefatigable labours in the city and temple by day. It is indeed amazing how flesh and blood could go through such incessant fatigues: but it is very probable that Christ might exert some miraculous power over his own animal nature, to strengthen it for such difficult services, and to preserve it in health and vigour; otherwise the copious dews, which fall by night in those parts, must have been very dangerous, especially when the body was heated by preaching in the day, and often by travelling several miles on fo