Life Of Christ
A Harmony of the Gospels

Traditional Garden of Gethsemane

Olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane

An Olive tree in the traditional Garden of Gethsemane.
The Olive tree is a broad-leaved evergreen tree that produces fruit used for food and as an oil for lamps.
The name Gethsemane (gat shemanim) means "oil press"
and suggests that the garden was a grove of olive trees with an oil press.

Photo Courtesy of
David Hawkinson
(from Bible Photos of the Holy Land - Biblesoft)