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Another amazing find in the
excavations of the southern wall of the Temple
Mount is a large inscribed stone on the southwest
corner of a street, seen here. It is inscribed with
the Hebrew words: "Lebeith Hatkiah Lehach(kriz)"
meaning: "to the trumpeting place to [proclaim?]".
This may refer to the
sounding of a trumpet to proclaim the onset of the
Sabbath on Friday evening, by a priest standing on
the Temple Mount. This Herodian-style stone may
have marked the ritual site, and was tossed down by
the Legionnaires.
Read more about the southern
wall - click
here.
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Jn 9:1-33:"And
as Jesus passed by, he saw a man
which was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him,
saying, Master, who did sin, this
man, or his parents, that he was
born blind? Jesus answered,
Neither hath this man sinned, nor
his parents: but that the works of
God should be made manifest in
him. I must work the works of him
that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can
work. As long as I am in the
world, I am the light of the
world. When he had thus spoken, he
spat on the ground, and made clay
of the spittle, and he anointed
the eyes of the blind man with the
clay,
And said unto
him, Go, wash in the pool of
Siloam, (which is by
interpretation, Sent.) He went his
way therefore, and washed, and
came seeing. The neighbours
therefore, and they which before
had seen him that he was blind,
said, Is not this he that sat and
begged? Some said, This is he:
others said, He is like him: but
he said, I am he. Therefore said
they unto him, How were thine eyes
opened? He answered and said, A
man that is called Jesus made
clay, and anointed mine eyes, and
said unto me, Go to the pool of
Siloam, and wash: and I went and
washed, and I received sight. Then
said they unto him, Where is he?
He said, I know not. They brought
to the Pharisees him that
aforetime was blind.
And it was the sabbath day when
Jesus made the clay, and opened
his eyes. Then again the Pharisees
also asked him how he had received
his sight. He said unto them, He
put clay upon mine eyes, and I
washed, and do see. Therefore said
some of the Pharisees, This man is
not of God, because he keepeth not
the sabbath day. Others said, How
can a man that is a sinner do such
miracles? And there was a division
among them. They say unto the
blind man again, What sayest thou
of him, that he hath opened thine
eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
But the Jews
did not believe concerning him,
that he had been blind, and
received his sight, until they
called the parents of him that had
received his sight. And they asked
them, saying, Is this your son,
who ye say was born blind? how
then doth he now see? His parents
answered them and said, We know
that this is our son, and that he
was born blind: But by what means
he now seeth, we know not; or who
hath opened his eyes, we know not:
he is of age; ask him: he shall
speak for himself. These words
spake his parents, because they
feared the Jews: for the Jews had
agreed already, that if any man
did confess that he was Christ, he
should be put out of the
synagogue. Therefore said his
parents, He is of age; ask him.
Then again
called they the man that was
blind, and said unto him, Give God
the praise: we know that this man
is a sinner. He answered and said,
Whether he be a sinner or no, I
know not: one thing I know, that,
whereas I was blind, now I see.
Then said they to him again, What
did he to thee? how opened he
thine eyes? He answered them, I
have told you already, and ye did
not hear: wherefore would ye hear
it again? will ye also be his
disciples? Then they reviled him,
and said, Thou art his disciple;
but we are Moses' disciples. We
know that God spake unto Moses: as
for this fellow, we know not from
whence he is. The man answered and
said unto them, Why herein is a
marvellous thing, that ye know not
from whence he is, and yet he hath
opened mine eyes. Now we know that
God heareth not sinners: but if
any man be a worshipper of God,
and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Since the world began was it not
heard that any man opened the eyes
of one that was born blind. If
this man were not of God, he could
do nothing".
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