What do I want to see most?
Without giving it a lot of thought, here goes:
1. Where Jesus walked on the water. And Peter stepped out and walked also, when he kept focused on Jesus. Sea of Galilee or as it is called now, Sea of Kinnereth. It was also called Sea of Tiberias.
2. Where Jesus was born. Where God became man and walked among us. Bethlehem.
3. Where Jesus prayed in the Garden to His Father, right before being arrested. He talked as one of us, please don't make me do this. He heard and obeyed. The Garden of Gethesemane.
4. Where Jesus preached in Galilee, on the hillsides, to groups of followers. For three years. To sit there and read his words, with the same mountains and hills and stones around me. The Sermon on the Mount.
5. The path representing Jesus' walk from Pilate to his crucifixion. Via Dolorosa. I know the current one is
not the original one. Pilgrims started walking this in the 800's. So many pilgrims have walked it. Its the spiritual impact that counts.
6. How about the Upper Room? Do we know where that was? And a tomb similar to what Jesus would have been laid in. All those events in Jerusalem the last three days. Any locations remaining?
7. I wonder if we could see any sites of Jesus' miracles? His healing at the Pool of Bethsaida?
8. The Temple, what is remaining.
The First Temple built to God by Solomon was totally destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzer in 587 BC and the Israelites were hauled off to Babylon as exiles, but the Second Temple was built in about 537 BC. The Israelites were allowed to return to Jerusalem under Persian King Cyrus the Great and rebuild their Temple. In 70 AD the Romans knocked it all down. All except for one wall. The Wailing Wall.
Remember this is the site where Abraham didn't sacrifice Isaac.
9. Old fragments of scripture. Old or New Testament.
10. The Jordan River. Jesus was baptized along it's banks. Joshua led the Israelites across it to the Promised Land.
Well, there's a top 10 list.
Without giving it a lot of thought, here goes:
1. Where Jesus walked on the water. And Peter stepped out and walked also, when he kept focused on Jesus. Sea of Galilee or as it is called now, Sea of Kinnereth. It was also called Sea of Tiberias.2. Where Jesus was born. Where God became man and walked among us. Bethlehem.
3. Where Jesus prayed in the Garden to His Father, right before being arrested. He talked as one of us, please don't make me do this. He heard and obeyed. The Garden of Gethesemane.
4. Where Jesus preached in Galilee, on the hillsides, to groups of followers. For three years. To sit there and read his words, with the same mountains and hills and stones around me. The Sermon on the Mount.
5. The path representing Jesus' walk from Pilate to his crucifixion. Via Dolorosa. I know the current one is
not the original one. Pilgrims started walking this in the 800's. So many pilgrims have walked it. Its the spiritual impact that counts.
6. How about the Upper Room? Do we know where that was? And a tomb similar to what Jesus would have been laid in. All those events in Jerusalem the last three days. Any locations remaining?
7. I wonder if we could see any sites of Jesus' miracles? His healing at the Pool of Bethsaida?
8. The Temple, what is remaining.
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| Wailing Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem |
Remember this is the site where Abraham didn't sacrifice Isaac.
9. Old fragments of scripture. Old or New Testament.
10. The Jordan River. Jesus was baptized along it's banks. Joshua led the Israelites across it to the Promised Land.
Well, there's a top 10 list.
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