Beginning late last year and Bro. Hughes was reading the book of John, he realized that there were several phrases that appear but they didn't need to be there. The story about the healing of the man by the pool concludes with the statement that it was on the Sabbath. It was not consequential to the story other than it points out the attitude of the leadership at that time. At the time of this writing, John has all of the gospels available to him. So he has the perspectiv of being able to add his perspective about the events that had taken place. His comments illustrate that Jesus was keenly aware of all of His actions and the totality of the affect of what He was doing. God is not relegated by any clock. He knew what was going to happen because time has not meaning to God. As John writes, his accounts highlight to us that we need to pay attention to the details. The healing of the man by the pool, the feeding of the multitudes, and other miracles didn't happen by chance. Bro. Hughes explains that the religious leadership knew Jesus was who He said he was, but they could not accept Him because He had not come as they expected. They wanted to make Him king, but Jesus knew that could not happen because it would not fulfill HIs purpose. John's account tells us that Jesus escaped to the mount of Olives. We are not told what He did, other than that He went. Jesus would escape to the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives. John account illustrates to us how human Jesus was because He needed a place of escape in order to meditate and pray. Jesus worked to make sure that the garden was not desecrated. The next day would be the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery. Jesus knew that it would happen, but he controlled the environment in which it would happen, so He arose at daybreak to go to the temple. His garden was so important to Him that He wanted to protect it. Adam failed to protect his garden. God had given Adam two jobs to keep the garden safe and clean. Adam chose to let his garden to be defiled. He allowed Satan into that garden. Bro. Hughes ask "what are we allowing in our garden." What are we allowing into our homes? What are we allowing to our lives, our children's lives and the lives of our loved ones? We have to learn to protect the people around us from the things that would destroy them. This includes the influence of our own flesh. We have to protect our garden.