As I mentioned, right by where we petted the kitty, our first stop on Day 8 after the drive back up to Nazareth was the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation. It is not known for sure where the angel appeared…
Today we had a comparatively lighter day. Some travel in the morning as it was time to leave Jerusalem and travel back up north to stay in Nazareth. We had a very nice hotel at the Ramada in Nazareth, best…
This is a newer site, found in the late 1800s I believe. This area was being excavated for something else until ruins were found here. The people that found it and subsequent scholars agree that it is maybe not the…
We went to a small area of the Israel Museum where the Dead Sea Scrolls are kept on display. Well, some of them. I am sorry to say that we were not allowed to take pictures of any of the…
Very near the Antonia Fortress is the Pools of Bethesda. Right next to the pools of Bethesda is St Anne’s Cathedral. This is one of the few cathedrals that was not destroyed by the Muslims after the Byzantine Era because…
Pontius Pilate judged Jesus in the courtyard of the Antonia Fortress on the northwest corner of the Temple Mount. At the time, the courtyard was open to the sky, while now it is covered over to be the foundation for…
After we went back outside of the church by the ladder no one will move, we went through another doorway and entered a deserted courtyard. These tiny green doors are entrances to the rooms of the Coptic monks that live…
This is going to be a marathon. I may have to break it up into components because there is so much here. Choosing pictures to narrow down to is almost impossible because of the richness of the content. I’ll do…