Gethsemane - wikipedia Gethsemane For other uses, see Gethsemane ( disambiguation ). Coordinates : 31 ° 46 ′ 46 '' N 35 ° 14 ′ 25 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 31.779402 ° N 35.240197 ° E ﻿ / 31.779402 ; 35.240197 Garden of Gethsemane Gethsemane ( Greek : Γεθσημανή, Gethsemane ; Hebrew : גת שמנים ‎, Gat Shmanim ; Classical Syriac : ܓܕܣܡܢ ‎, Gaḏ Šmānê, lit. `` oil press '' ) is an urban garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, most famous as the place where Jesus prayed and his disciples slept the night before his crucifixion ; i.e. the site recorded as where the agony in the garden took place. Contents 1 Etymology 2 Location 3 Pilgrimage site 4 Olive trees 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Etymology Gethsemane appears in the Greek original of the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark as Γεθσημανή ( Gethsēmanē ). The name is derived from the Aramaic ܓܕܣܡܢ ( Gaḏ - Šmānê ), meaning `` oil press ''. Matthew ( 26 : 36 ) and Mark ( 14 : 32 ) call it χωρἰον ( 18 : 1 ), meaning a place or estate. The Gospel of John says Jesus entered a garden ( κῆπος ) with his disciples. Location Garden of Gethsemane, 1914 According to the New Testament it was a place that Jesus and his disciples customarily visited, which allowed Judas to find him on the night of his arrest. There are four locations claimed to be the place where Jesus prayed on the night he was betrayed. The Church of All Nations overlooking a garden with the `` Rock of the Agony. '' The location near the Tomb of the Virgin Mary to the north. The Greek Orthodox location to the east. The Russian Orthodox orchard, next to the Church of Maria Magdalene by an orchard. William M. Thomson, author of The Land and the Book, first published in 1880, wrote : `` When I first came to Jerusalem, and for many years afterward, this plot of ground was open to all whenever they chose to come and meditate beneath its very old olive trees. The Latins, however, have within the last few years succeeded in gaining sole possession, and have built a high wall around it. The Greeks have invented another site a little to the north of it. My own impression is that both are wrong. The position is too near the city, and so close to what must have always been the great thoroughfare eastward, that our Lord would scarcely have selected it for retirement on that dangerous and dismal night. I am inclined to place the garden in the secluded vale several hundred yards to the north - east of the present Gethsemane. '' All of the foregoing is based on long - held tradition and the conflating of the synoptic accounts of Mark ( 14 : 31 ) and Matthew ( 26 : 36 ) with the Johannine account ( John 18 : 1 ). Mark and Matthew record that Jesus went to `` a place called the oil press ( Gethsemane ) '' and John states he went to a garden near the Kidron Valley. Modern scholarship acknowledges that the location of Gethsemane is unknown. Pilgrimage site Andrea Mantegna 's Agony in the Garden, circa 1460, depicts Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane According to Luke 22 : 43 -- 44, Jesus 's anguish on the Mount of Olives ( Luke does not mention Gethsemane ; Luke 22 : 39 - 40 ) was so deep that `` his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. '' According to the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition, Gethsemane is the garden where the Virgin Mary was buried and was assumed into heaven after her dormition on Mount Zion. The Garden of Gethsemane became a focal site for early Christian pilgrims. It was visited in 333 by the anonymous `` Pilgrim of Bordeaux '', whose Itinerarium Burdigalense is the earliest description left by a Christian traveler in the Holy Land. In his Onomasticon, Eusebius of Caesarea notes the site of Gethsemane located `` at the foot of the Mount of Olives '', and he adds that `` the faithful were accustomed to go there to pray ''. Eight ancient olive trees growing in the Latin site of the garden may be 900 years old ( see below ). Olive trees A study conducted by the National Research Council of Italy in 2012 found that several olive trees in the garden are amongst the oldest known to science. Dates of 1092, 1166 and 1198 AD were obtained by carbon dating from older parts of the trunks of three trees. DNA tests show that the trees were originally planted from the same parent plant. This could indicate attempt to keep the lineage of an older species intact. Then again the three trees tested could have been sprouts reviving from the older roots. `` 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 because olive trees can grow back from roots after being cut down '', researchers said. However Bernabei writes, `` All the tree trunks are hollow inside so that the central, older wood is missing... In the end, only three from a total of eight olive trees could be successfully dated. The dated ancient olive trees do, however, not allow any hypothesis to be made with regard to the age of the remaining five giant olive trees. '' Babcox said that the roots of the oldest trees are possibly much older and then points out the traditional claim that the trees are two thousand years old. See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gethsemane. Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani Agony in the Garden Holy Hour References Jump up ^ Matthew 26 : 36 ( King James Version ) ; `` Holy Bible : Greek New Testament ( Scrivener 1894 ) ''. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 2009 - 03 - 25. Jump up ^ Mark 14 : 32 ( KJV ) ; `` Holy Bible : Greek New Testament ( Scrivener 1894 ) ''. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 2009 - 03 - 25. Jump up ^ Metzger, Bruce M. ; Coogan, Michael D., eds. ( 1993 ). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. p. 253. ISBN 0 - 19 - 504645 - 5. Jump up ^ John 18 : 1 ( KJV ) Jump up ^ Brown, S. Kent ( 1992 ), `` Gethsemane '', in Ludlow, Daniel H, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York : Macmillan Publishing, pp. 542 -- 543, ISBN 0 - 02 - 879602 - 0, OCLC 24502140 Jump up ^ Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, `` Gethsemane '', p. 675, 1975, ISBN 0 - 8024 - 9697 - 0 Jump up ^ Easton 's Bible Dictionary, Gethsemane Jump up ^ The Complete Gospels : Annotated Scholars Version. 1994 by Polebridge Press. p. 108, note on Mt. 26 : 36 Jump up ^ Paul Maier In the Fullness of Time ^ Jump up to : Reuters ( October 20, 2012 ). `` Jerusalem olive trees among oldest in world ''. Haaretz. Jump up ^ Zeller, Harmah. Wild Flowers of the Holy Land ^ Jump up to : Reuters ( October 20, 2012 ). `` Jerusalem olive trees among oldest in world ''. Haaretz Jump up ^ Bernabei, Mauro. `` The age of the olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane. '' Journal of Archaeological Science 53 ( 2015 ) : 43 - 48 Jump up ^ Babcox, Wendy. `` Every Olive Tree in the Garden of Gethsemane. '' Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 3.2 ( 2014 ) : 111 - 115 Works cited Taylor, Joan E., `` The Garden of Gethsemane, '' Biblical Archaeology Review 21 / 4 ( July / August 1995 ) 26 - 35 : www.bib-arch.org/online-exclusives/Easter-03.asp External links Catholic Encyclopedia on Gethsemane Paul 's Knowledge of the Garden of Gethsemane Narrative, by Christopher Price FotoTagger Annotated Galleries - Gethsemane in the art and reality Article on the history of the Russian monastery itself New Testament places associated with Jesus Galilee Ænon Bethsaida Cana Capernaum Chorazin Gennesaret Mount of Transfiguration Nain Nazareth Sea of Galilee Judea Bethany Bethesda Bethlehem Bethphage Calvary Emmaus Gabbatha Gethsemane Jericho Jerusalem Temple Mount of Olives Other Al - Maghtas Bethabara Caesarea Maritima Caesarea Philippi Egypt Gerasa Road to Damascus Sychar Umm Qais Christianity Portal VIAF : 131141799 GND : 4093450 - 0 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gethsemane&oldid=828234642 '' Categories : Christianity in Jerusalem Geography of Jerusalem New Testament geography Mount of Olives New Testament Aramaic words and phrases Hidden categories : Coordinates on Wikidata Articles containing Ancient Greek - language text Articles containing Hebrew - language text Articles containing Classical Syriac - language text Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Беларуская Беларуская ( тарашкевіца ) ‎ Български Brezhoneg Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Gaeilge Galego 한국어 Հայերեն Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Basa Jawa Latviešu Magyar Македонски مصرى Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk پنجابی Polski Português Română Русский Scots Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Српски / srpski Suomi Svenska தமிழ் Українська اردو Tiếng Việt 中文 41 more Edit links This page was last edited on 1 March 2018, at 10 : 16. 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Question: where is gethsemane in related to the mount of olives
Answer: at the foot of the Mount of Olives