Sundays of Easter! Hallelujah!

Sundays of Easter! Hallelujah!

The walk from the Praetorium to Golgatha and the Tomb of Christ takes you from the Armenean Quarter to the Christian Quarter, the heart of which is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.  The early Jerusalem Christian community never lost memory of where our Lord was crucified and buried. The student-pilgrim has been cautioned elsewhere in this book not to confuse the current sixteenth-century CE Old City walls with the biblical walls of Jerusalem. In the 30s CE when Jesus was tried and crucified by Pontius Pilot (Roman Procurator of Judea 26-36 CE) this spot lay outside the city wall (Jews at the time would not place a cemetery inside the Holy City’s walls).

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