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The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet (Hebrew: הַר הַזֵּיתִים, romanized: Har ha-Zeitim; Arabic: جبل الزيتون, romanized: Jabal az-Zaytūn; both lit. 'Mount of Olives'; in Arabic also الطور , Aṭ-Ṭūr , 'the Mountain') is a mountain ridge in East Jerusalem , east of and adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City . [ 1 ]
Olive oil was crucial for lighting the Menorah inside the Temple. The Menorah was a central fixture in the Temple's sanctuary. Pure olive oil was used to keep the Menorah burning continuously. [91] On Tu BiShvat, the Jewish holiday known as the New Year for Trees, olive trees hold a special significance along with other fruit-bearing trees. [92]
Zechariah 14:4 states that the Messiah would come to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives: [32] [43] [44] Matthew 21:1–11 refers to a passage from Book of Zechariah [ 45 ] and states: "All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and ...
The work is a dramatic oratorio and is considered a much more humanistic portrayal of the Christ passion [4] than other settings, such as those by Bach.It concludes at the point of Jesus personally accepting his fate, placing the emphasis on his own decision rather than the later Crucifixion or Resurrection.
The first discourse (Matthew 5–7) is called the Sermon on the Mount and is one of the best known and most quoted parts of the New Testament. [6] It includes the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer and the Golden Rule. To most believers in Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount contains the central tenets of Christian discipleship. [6]
'house of unripe figs') [1] or Bethsphage, [2] is a Christian religious site on the Mount of Olives east of historical Jerusalem. Franciscan Church of Bethphage. Bethphage is mentioned in the New Testament as the place in ancient Israel to which Jesus sent his disciples to find a colt upon which he would ride into Jerusalem.
Garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane (/ ɡ ɛ θ ˈ s ɛ m ə n i / gheth-SEM-ə-nee) [a] is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.
The Hebrew Bible talks of the "Valley of Jehoshaphat – Emek Yehoshafat" (Hebrew: עמק יהושפט), meaning "The valley where Yahweh shall judge." Not all scholars agree with the traditional view that the Kidron Valley, as the valley situated between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives to the east, is the location of the Valley of Jehoshaphat.