I wanted to stop, but our guide, my roommate, just laughed. At one point, as we were driving from Jericho to Jerusalem in the area of Bethany, we saw a sign, which supposedly marked the cave where Lazarus was buried, at least for four days.
There were many interesting facts about this tomb pointing to the possibility it was His place of burial, to include that there are no DNA remains – since Jesus was raised from the dead and His body was not left to decay. We don’t actually know if it was the tomb where Jesus was buried, but it was certainly one just like it. We stayed in the Jerusalem Hotel, right across the street from what is thought to be Golgotha, the place of the skull, the mount of crucifixion.
We visited what is thought to be the Garden of Gethsemane, containing olive trees over 2,000 years old. We ate at a restaurant atop the Mount of Olives, where we had a great view of the Kidron Valley, the Temple Mount and the Eastern Gate. We saw the Pool of Siloam, where He healed the man blind from birth. We saw the Pool of Bethesda where Jesus healed the man lame for 38 years. We visited Jerusalem, where we walked the famed via Dolorosa. A short drive and we saw the Mount of the Beatitudes, where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount. We visited Capernaum, the base of His Galilean ministry. We drove through Nazareth, where He was raised. We visited Bethlehem, the place of Jesus’ birth. He drove us around, showing us the sights. We met one of my college roommates who had planted a church in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem. I’ll never forget our first trip, back in 2005. Tana and I have been privileged in recent years to visit Israel.
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