So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the ...

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“Today, we celebrate the opening of the tomb that could not keep Jesus inside,” Bartchak said. His message drew comparisons between Christ’s return to life and the Rose of Jericho, a plant ...

In Jordan, a 50km pilgrimage trail follows the path of a 4th-Century nun who journeyed through the Holy Land – centuries before Spain's famed Camino de Santiago.

Is not the man who, on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho, fell among robbers who stripped him and left him half-dead and bleeding beside the road, the image of humanity par excellence? Jesus' fall ...

or see the maps in the back of most good "Study Bibles." Notes: Since borders frequently shifted, there are some differences between the political geography at the time of the birth of Jesus (ca ...

A Unesco World Heritage site, this is believed to be the location where Jesus was baptised by John ... reading about the nun and scouring old maps in search of her original route.

The rabbinic parables are of course the closest in both time and place to those of Jesus. The following example ... A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers ...

He eventually chose to follow the ways of the Pharisees, which included lawyers who engaged with Jesus in his day. By the time he reached his twenties ... Cities mentioned in the Bible (like Jericho, ...