Part Three: The Faith in Jesus
Biblical Geography on DVD
Part Three: The Faith in Jesus
Biblical Geography on DVD
 The
search for purity of heart, as voiced on the Mt. of Beatitudes, leads to
Jerusalem
and Jesus’ passion. (From the film): "It is the week of Passover. As many
as 300,000 pilgrims have made the journey up to Jerusalem. Many believe
it is the time of the "birth pangs": that God is about to enter history.
And then over the Mt. of Olives comes a mysterious, charismatic miracle-worker
and upsets the tables of the moneychangers in the Temple! It must have
seemed very threatening to the authorities, including above all Pontius
Pilate…"
After exploring the link between the geography of the city and its ancient history, we take that journey with Jesus over the Mt. of Olives (Palm Sunday), imagining the Temple as he would have seen it. We look at variations in the Passover celebration: Samaritan, Jewish, and Christian. Then we follow him to Gethsemane and ponder the events there, studying their relation to purity of heart. We continue to follow him on the Via Dolorosa, exploring a rolling-stone tomb from that time. But that is not the end of the story.
At Caesarea again, we hear the account of the first Gentile converts.
We return to Jerusalem, but this time to the recently excavated
ruins of the Temple, whose destruction formed the "watershed" at
which the two faiths parted.
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