In the 15th century, the building was taken over by the Moslems and converted into a mosque in the 16th century. Jews and Christians were only allowed access to the building again in 1948 after the War of Independence. Gethsemane The garden where Jesus came to pray before his arrest lies ...
Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar is a bright and sometimes breathtaking retelling of the rock opera of the same name. It is, indeed, a triumph over that work; using most of the same words and music, it succeeds in being light instead of turgid, outward-looking instead of narcissist...
Christ in Gethsemane (1890), Riverside Church, New York Christ and the Rich Young Ruler (1889), Riverside Church, New York Christ in the Temple (1871), Riverside Church, New YorkVladimir Makovsky (1846-1920), Jesus Christ (1893), Oil on canvas, 79 x 45 cmNikolai...
I should be at Gethsemane practicing with the Music & Drama Crew… but I’m not. Interestingly enough – here is a post sitting in my drafts from two years ago, July 24, 2017… Titled: Missing Music & Drama It’s Saturday morning, July 24 at 10:16 AM. I should be frantically runni...
we are alone or the future uncertain. Then it is time to remember that it is but a short distance from the Mount of Olives to the Garden of Gethsemane. Before being a place of resurrection and ascension it was first a place of denial and rejection. Ironically the word “witness” comes...
It began in the Garden of Gethsemane, "Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners" (Matthew 26:45).[61]"Gallons" (NIV, NRSV), "firkins" (KJV) is metrētēs, a liquid measure of about 40 liters, "measure." It is similar to the Hebrew ...
in my bag, so we sat on the couch to thumb through it. They smiled and pointed at the surprising likeness rocks can portray of people and things. But the mood markedly changed as they turned the pages of the Garden of Gethsemane, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. The couple got ...
For instance, He went to Gethsemane garden where He experienced the pain of sin because He took the sins of all the people who lived or were to live in this universe (O’Day & Peterson, 2008). This was so painful but because of His intimacy with God and humankind, He accepted to go...