Cedron

Cedron is the New Testament Greek-spelling form of the brook Kidron, the eastern ravine running between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives. The name surfaces in this form at the seam between the upper-room discourse and the garden of arrest: "When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where a garden was, into which he entered, himself and his disciples" (Jn 18:1). The crossing functions in John's narrative as the geographical pivot from speech to passion, marking the move out of the city on the night of Jesus' agony.

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The same brook carries a long Old Testament file — Solomon's death-line east of the city for Shimei (1Ki 2:37), David's flight-route from Absalom, Asa and Josiah's idol-burning ground, Hezekiah's temple-cleansing terminus and water-source, Nehemiah's night reconnaissance of the wall (Ne 2:15), and Jeremiah's eastern boundary of the consecrated city (Jer 31:40). The full prose treatment of those passages lives at Kidron; this Cedron page exists only to surface the Johannine spelling of the same name and point readers there.