Gethsemane

Gethsemane (Heb. gath, 'a wine-press,' and shemcn, 'oil'), the scene of our Saviour's agony on the night before his Passion, was a small farm or estate at the foot of Mount Olivet, somewhere on the east slope of the Kedron valley, and rather more than half a mile from the city of Jerusalem. Attached to it was a garden or orchard, a favourite resort of Christ and his disciples. The place is not now exactly known, but an enclosure with a few old olive-trees is pointed out to travellers as the site of the garden.