A Journey Through Time:
"Tracing the History of the Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden of Eden”
Gethsemane (an oil-press)
A small “farm” Matt. 26:36; Mark 14:32- Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane and said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” situated across the brook Kedron, John 18:1 –When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley.
On the other side, there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it, probably at the foot of Mount Olive, Luke 22:39 – Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him, to the northwest and about one-half or three-quarters of a mile English from the walls of Jerusalem, and 100 yards east of the bridge over the Kedron.
There was a “garden” or rather orchard, attached to it, to which the olive, fig, and pomegranate doubtless invited resort by their hospitable shade. And we know from the evangelist Luke 22:39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. , and John 18:2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples, that our Lord ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
But Gethsemane has not come down to us as a scene of mirth; its inexhaustible associations are the offspring of a single event-the agony of the Son of God on the evening preceding his passion. A garden, with eight venerable olive trees and a grotto to the north, detached from it, and in closer connection with the church of the Sepulchre of the Virgin, is pointed out as the Gethsemane.
Against the contemporary antiquity of the olive trees, it has been urged that Titus out down all the trees about Jerusalem. The probability would seem to be that they were planted by Christian hands to mark the spot; unless, like may have reproduced themselves.
Reference from Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Life in God's Garden
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four overheads. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Hiddekel, which goes toward the east of Assyria.
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tress of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
Genesis 2:8-17