GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Gethsemane
See also Atone, Atonement; Olives, Mount of

A garden spoken of in the New Testament as being near the Mount of Olives. In Aramaic, the word gethsemane means "olive press." Jesus went to the garden on the night that Judas betrayed him. There he prayed and suffered in Gethsemane for the sins of mankind (Matt. 26: 36, 39; Mark 14: 32; John 18: 1; Alma 21: 9; D&C 19: 15-19).