Mark 14:32

And they came They would pass through one of the city gates, "open that night as it was Passover," down the steep side of the Kidron (John 18:1), and coming by the bridge, they went onwards towards

a place which was named Gethsemane The word Gethsemane means "the Oil-Press." It was a garden(John 18:1) or an olive orchard on the slope of Olivet, and doubtless contained a press to crush the olives, which grew in profusion all around. Thither St John tells us our Lord was often wont to resort (John 18:2), and Judas "knew the place." Though at a sufficient distance from public thoroughfares to secure privacy, it was yet apparently easy of access. For a description of the traditional site see Stanley's Sinai and Palestine, p. 455.