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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Gethsemane
An olive grove at the foot of the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem, where Jesus often went with his disciples and where he prayed in anguish the night he was arrested. The garden has been honoured roughly there since at least the fourth century. The olive trees standing now date to the medieval period.
An olive grove at the foot of the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem, where Jesus often went with his disciples and where he prayed in anguish the night he was arrested. The garden has been honoured roughly there since at least the fourth century. The olive trees standing now date to the medieval period.
Gethsemane was not a person but an olive grove at the foot of the Mount of Olives, just across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem, where Jesus often withdrew with his disciples and where he agonized in prayer the night he was betrayed and arrested (Matthew 26:36-46; John 18:1-2). The garden has been venerated at roughly this location since at least the fourth century, though the olive trees standing there today have been radiocarbon-dated to the medieval period rather than to the first century.
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- Matthew 26:36
- Mark 14:32
