Olive Tree Garden Of Gethsemane
Garden of gethsemane with the church of all nations in the foreground and the russian church of st.
Olive tree garden of gethsemane. Symbolically the garden of gethsemane was a low spot near jerusalem. Mary magdalene in the centre background ewing galloway. The garden of gethsemane is the location where both the agony in the garden where jesus came to accept his coming betrayal as well as the place where judas led officials the night of his arrest according to the gospels. The results of tests on trees in the garden of gethsemane have not settled the question of whether the gnarled trees are the very same which sheltered jesus where the bible says he prayed and was.
The name gethsemane hebrew gat shemanim oil press suggests that the garden was a grove of olive trees in which was located an oil press. Second the kidron brook ran nearby. Gethsemane taken from the aramaic word for olive press is mentioned many times throughout the new testament as a favorite place for jesus and his disciples to rest and pray beneath the evergreen olive trees. Christians throughout the world have long revered the ancient olive trees located in the historic garden of gethsemane.
Many of the trees in the garden are hundreds of years old but there are some that experts believe could have been standing during the time of christ himself.