ACTS
The continued Life of Jesus through the Apostles

The Mount of Olives as seen from Jerusalem and the traditional site (exact location uncertain) of the Garden of Gethsemane. The name Gethsemane (gat shemanim) means "oil press" and suggests that the garden was a grove of olive trees with an oil press.

At Gethsemane Jesus prayed before His crucifixion and from the Mount of Olives Jesus ascended into Heaven after His resurrection.

An olive grove (olive trees) on the Mount of Olives.

The Olive tree is a broad-leaved evergreen tree that produces fruit used for food and as an oil for lamps.

An olive tree is used in the Bible as a symbol for Israel.

A Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Kidron valley and Jerusalem.

 The Dome of the Rock or Mosque of Omar (the golden dome in the top center of the picture) is built on the ancient Temple Mount where Solomon's Temple once stood.

The gate in the wall just to the right of the Dome is the Golden or Eastern Gate. Jesus' feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives again when he returns at his second coming.

"As now the dome of the Mosque El-Aksa rises like a ghost from the earth before the traveler stands on the ledge, so then must have risen the Temple tower;
as now the vast enclosure of the Mussulman sanctuary, so then must have spread the Temple courts;
as now the gray town on its broken hills, so then the magnificent city, with its background-long since vanished away-of gardens and suburbs on the western plateau behind.
Immediately below was the Valley of the Kedron, here seen in its greatest depth as it joins the Valley of Hinnom, and thus giving full effect to the great peculiarity of Jerusalem, seen only on its eastern side-its situation as of a city rising out of a deep abyss. It is hardly possible to doubt that this rise and turn of the road-this rocky ledge-was the exact point where the multitude paused again, and "He, when He beheld the city, wept over it."' ("Sinai and Palestine," chapter iii.)
(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)