Friday, June 7, 2013

Odd and Ends

Still here in Minneapolis, and I didn't get on the early flight. Oh well. So instead, I am going to post some pictures. Yay, pictures.

The following pictures come to you from the Garden Tomb. The Garden Tomb is essentially the Protestant response to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It is a location where they say Jesus was buried. Some Protestants do not believe that this is the location any more. I learned that when Lutheran Church of the Redeemer was constructing its church they ran across ancient footings for the old walls of Jerusalem. This is really cool, because that would put the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (and all the sites within corresponding the death and resurrection) as right outside the walls of Jerusalem, as it was described in the text.

Regardless of who has it right, because we honestly cannot know, it was cool to see a very different location to commemorate the location of the death and resurrection of Jesus.



The above picture is kind of self-explanatory as to why I took it.


I like the fact that you can see fences behind these crosses. Fences were (Oh, I don't like this past tense thing already) an all too common site in Israel.


Looking into a chapel.


Golgotha, the place of the skull. If you look, you can see the outline of a skull-esque shape in the rocks.



Jesus has risen signs.


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