our last photo in our hotel room together
still packing..
we had a late morning coz we had much to pack, had our last breakfast (SO SAD!!!) and headed for golgotha and the garden tomb. (same place)
The Garden Tomb
the view from where we were standing. can you make out the face/skull?
if you can't, here's some help
me smiling beside the skull. yet another ironic picture.
It's amazing how you can really see the SKULL in the rocks. quite scarey. btw, that's where Goliath's head is said to be buried. that's why it's called the place of the skull, ie, Golgotha.
Story goes that there was this European man staying in a hotel across this place. one day he was looking out, and realised how much these rocks resembled a skull. he then thought of how the bible described Golgotha, and figured that this really could be the place. upon further investigation, they found bones around that cliff/area, dating back to the time of Jesus. also, this area is just outside the city gate, (damascus gate), and it's along a major road - a very likely place to have public cruxifiction, as the purpose of cruxifiction then was to warn the public to not carry out these wrongdoings, lest you too be hung on the cross. so logically speaking, this was the best place to conduct cruxifiction.
of course, no one can say for sure lah. like what everyone says, it's not the place that matters, but what it signifies for us today.
we also saw the tomb of Jesus. it's carved from a stone, fresh, which only rich people can do. couldn't quite hear the guy explaining this portion as it was raining, and i was standing quite far behind. and i was very very cold. but anyway, Joseph, the guy who buried Jesus, was freakking rich, so that's why put two and two, and you might guess that this was Jesus' tomb. it was big enough for about 7 people to mourn, which apparently is quite big a number. okaayyy..
on our way into the tomb.. was raining..
the small entrance to the tomb
into the tomb
turning right towards the area the body was laid
the empty tomb.. HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!! =D
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