A Pilgrimage to Israel A Sacred Story Journey Connie Paul, January, 2010
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A Pilgrimage to IsraelA Sacred Story Journey
Connie Paul, January, 2010
Israel Now and Then
Our guide and driver were Palestinians and Israeli citizens
The Life of Jesus
Why does our story begin in Bethlehem?
Shepherd’s Field Remembers Two Events: First Ruth and Boaz
The monument
at the entrance to Shepherd’s
Field
This church commemorates the site of the angels & shepherds
Just down the road is Manger Square
The Church of the Nativity is one of the oldest in Israel.
The Persians didn’t destroy it in the 500’s as they did most others because of the icon of the Wise Men in Persian dress
This section is Greek Orthodox
Mosaic from the
floor of the church of the 500s
The ancient walls of the church
By Tradition the Place of Jesus’s Birth
To the right of the birthplace is the place of the manger
The manger may have looked like this one at Megiddo
Bethlehem today
Our story continues in Nazareth
It was Jesus’ hometown Jesus grew up
in Nazareth which was insignificant at the time
It is now the “Arab capital of Israel”
A village from Jesus’s time has been recreated
Nazareth today from the village
Jesus’s first miracle was
at Cana.This church
remembers it.
Some of the group re-enacted their marriage vows
To the Sea of Galilee
We hear the story of the calling of Peter and Andrew at
the seaside
The Sea is clear and lovely
The Site of the Sermon on the Mount
The Church of the Beatitudes
We heard the whole sermon here
The Church of Multiplication(Feeding the 5000)
Nearby is the church remembering Peter
“And thou art Peter and on this rock…”
Capernaum
Jesus really did walk here
The synagogue where Jesus taught
The church is built over the ruins
The floor of the church looks down on the ruins of Peter’s mother-in-laws house
An ancient olive press
The ancientmosaic
floor
Hearing Capernaum’s history
By tradition Zaccheus
climbed into this tree
Sailing on the Sea of GalileeWe saw the shore from a boat on the Sea
The Jordan, where Jesus was baptised, and one of our group
was, too.
The tomb of Lazarus in Bethany
The bottom of Lazarus’ tomb
The church of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
Jerusalem the Golden
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
The pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem
On the path to Jerusalem
on Palm Sunday
The Garden of Gethsemene, an olive grove
Caiphus’s house where Peter denied Jesus at the
crowing of the cock
The Via Dolorosa, a place of pilgrimage
Station VII
The site of Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchure
Stone of Preparation*
*from Internet
Behind the window of the church is the
location of the crucifixion
The Garden Tomb
Other wonderful places we visited
The Western Wall, the holiest site for Jews
The wall of the temple closest to
the Holy of Holies
The model of the temple at the Israel
Museum showing the courtyard of the Gentiles
The Dome of the Rock
Climbing to the tel
The tel of Megiddo
The excavation is to King Ahab’s time
Horse
Megiddo looks down on the plains of Armegeddon
Qumran Where the Dead Sea
scrolls were found
The museum has recreated
how the scrolls looked
when they were found.
The Springs of En Gedi
Going to swim in the Dead Sea
Masada
The model of Herod’s Masada
Touring the top of the mountain
The baths retain some of their color
The room where the lots were cast
The pilgrims at Beit She’an