Agony to Ecstasy - Palestine of Jesus - VI

The final day or maybe it was three days of Jesus' incarnate life are so horrible that they are difficult to contemplate.  Mostly, our minds want to get past them (it) and on to the resurrection.  But somehow the typography of Jerusalem makes that pretty impossible.  First, there is the reality of actual distance from one location to another.  That challenges our perceived time-frame.  What is covered in a sentence or two in the scriptires, had to take hours in actuality.  Some of the sites named may or may not be 100% accurate based on colateral sources.  For example, there has been a general assumption that Jesus' trial before Pilot took place in the Antonia Fortress on the north west corner of the Temple Mount whereas most scholars, today believe that Pilot would have stayed at Herod's Palace on Mount Zion, and that would be the place where the trial of Jesus took place.  A huge  difference in geography! 

Yesterday, after lunch,we went back to Mount Zion to visits the Cenaculum, site of the Last Supper and the location of the first church, the mother church of all the world's Christian churches.  From earliest times,it was acknilaged to be the location for the disciple's hangout in Jerusqalem proper, and the probable site of Pentecost as well.

In the fourth century, the Byzantines had built a hugh church which completely enclosed the Upper Room, the Pentecost "plaza" and the site remembered as the location of Mary's death, which is contained, today, next door, in the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition.  Some people. think that it is likely also to have contained in a separate monastery, the site of Caiphas' House.

Our final stop for the day was the Church of Peter in Gallicantu which translates as something like Peter as the cock crowed.  Because other important sites like the House of Caiphas, the site of the scourging, the denial of Peter, Peter of Gallicantu has come to serve as the site for them all.  So, what this site really represents is the place where Peter wept when he heard the cock crow.

I'm sorry to report that my keyboard has suddenly gone wacky and seems only capable of writting words with every letter doubled to tripped.  I hate the IPad keyboard, so unless I can find a fix while I an here, future blogs may be considerably shorter.  For now, Vale!