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Temple Mount and Mount of Olives
The photo above shows the
southern wall of the old city of Jerusalem, south of the
Temple Mount. In the background
is the north side of the Mount of Olives.
The Temple Mount is the
place where the Jewish temple was built, started
by King Solomon almost 3,000 years ago. The
temple was destroyed by the Romans and never
rebuilt again by the Jews. It was replaced by the
Muslim shrines in the 8th Century A.D. which stands there
today, the Golden Dome of the Rock being the
city's symbol.
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Mount of Olives is the hill
facing the old city of Jerusalem, on the eastern
side of Kidron valley. Its name came from the
olive trees that once grew on its hillside from
ancient times. According to Jewish tradition, the
Messiah will appear here and bring the dead back
to life. Therefore, the hillside became the holiest cemetery, and the hillside is covered by
thousands of grave stones.
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Jn 7:14-8:2:
"Now about the midst of the feast
Jesus went up into the temple, and
taught. And the Jews marvelled,
saying, How knoweth this man
letters, having never learned?
Jesus answered them, and said, My
doctrine is not mine, but his that
sent me. If any man will do his
will, he shall know of the
doctrine, whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself. He that
speaketh of himself seeketh his
own glory: but he that seeketh his
glory that sent him, the same is
true, and no unrighteousness is in
him. Did not Moses give you the
law, and yet none of you keepeth
the law? Why go ye about to kill
me? The people answered and said,
Thou hast a devil: who goeth about
to kill thee?
Jesus
answered and said unto them, I
have done one work, and ye all
marvel. Moses therefore gave unto
you circumcision; (not because it
is of Moses, but of the fathers;)
and ye on the sabbath day
circumcise a man. If a man on the
sabbath day receive circumcision,
that the law of Moses should not
be broken; are ye angry at me,
because I have made a man every
whit whole on the sabbath day?
Judge not according to the
appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
Then said
some of them of Jerusalem, Is not
this he, whom they seek to kill?
But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and
they say nothing unto him. Do the
rulers know indeed that this is
the very Christ? Howbeit we know
this man whence he is: but when
Christ cometh, no man knoweth
whence he is Then cried Jesus in
the temple as he taught, saying,
Ye both know me, and ye know
whence I am: and I am not come of
myself, but he that sent me is
true, whom ye know not. But I know
him: for I am from him, and he
hath sent me.
Then they
sought to take him: but no man
laid hands on him, because his
hour was not yet come. And many of
the people believed on him, and
said, When Christ cometh, will he
do more miracles than these which
this man hath done? The Pharisees
heard that the people murmured
such things concerning him; and
the Pharisees and the chief
priests sent officers to take him.
Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a
little while am I with you, and
then I go unto him that sent me.
Ye shall seek me, and shall not
find me: and where I am, thither
ye cannot come. Then said the Jews
among themselves, Whither will he
go, that we shall not find him?
will he go unto the dispersed
among the Gentiles, and teach the
Gentiles? What manner of saying is
this that he said, Ye shall seek
me, and shall not find me: and
where I am, thither ye cannot
come? In the last day, that great
day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, If any man thirst,
let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living
water. (But this spake he of the
Spirit, which they that believe on
him should receive: for the Holy
Ghost was not yet given; because
that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Many of the people therefore, when
they heard this saying, said, Of a
truth this is the Prophet. Others
said, This is the Christ. But some
said, Shall Christ come out of
Galilee? Hath not the scripture
said, That Christ cometh of the
seed of David, and out of the town
of Bethlehem, where David was? So
there was a division among the
people because of him. And some
of them would have taken him; but
no man laid hands on him.
Then came
the officers to the chief priests
and Pharisees; and they said unto
them, Why have ye not brought him?
The officers answered, Never man
spake like this man. Then answered
them the Pharisees, Are ye also
deceived? Have any of the rulers
or of the Pharisees believed on
him?
But this people who knoweth not
the law are cursed. Nicodemus
saith unto them, (he that came to
Jesus by night, being one of
them,) Doth our law judge any man,
before it hear him, and know what
he doeth? They answered and said
unto him, Art thou also of
Galilee? Search, and look: for out
of Galilee ariseth no prophet. And
every man went unto his own house.
Jesus went unto the mount of
Olives.
And early in the morning he came
again into the temple, and all the
people came unto him; and he sat
down, and taught them".
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Jesus
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