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Have you ever visited an apple orchard or an orange grove? This is where our fruit is grown on trees and cared for by a tree farmer. He takes care of the trees, plants new ones when the old ones die and picks the fruit to send to the markets. Not all of the fruit that grows on trees is used for eating. How many of you have ever eaten an olive? Did you know that olives grow on trees like oranges or pears?

A lot of olives that are used are grown in the land where Jesus lived. People in Jerusalem ate olives once in a while but the real use for olives in the Holy Land was mainly the oil that comes from them. People would put the olives in a press and squeeze them until they could get all the oil out of them. Then they would sell the oil.

The reason that this is so important is …