The mount of Olives, or Olivet, is the ridge east of Jerusalem, beyond the brook Kidron
So named from its olive-trees. On its slopes were Gethsemane, Bethphage and Bethany (2 Sam. 15:30; Zech. 14:4; Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 22:39; John 8:1; Acts 1:12).