According to the New Testament, Jesus prayed before his arrest in the garden of Gethsemane.
The Synoptic Gospels place Jesus and his disciples at Gethsemane after the Last Supper. Jesus withdraws to pray while his disciples remain nearby, and the scene leads directly to Judas’s arrival with an armed crowd and Jesus’ arrest.
Matthew and Mark name Gethsemane, while Luke describes Jesus praying on the Mount of Olives without using the garden’s name. John refers to a garden across the Kidron Valley and says Jesus went there with his disciples.
Gethsemane means “oil press,” a name consistent with the olive-growing landscape around Jerusalem. A site traditionally identified with Gethsemane remains a place of Christian pilgrimage today, though the exact location of the first-century garden cannot be proven with certainty. The garden is not the same place as Golgotha, where the crucifixion occurred.