Following the Savior's Last Hours

We started out going to see the upper room where Jesus celebrated the passover - The Last Supper. Unfortunately the person who was supposed to unlock the doors was quite late, so while we waited we went to see King David's tomb. Apparently the building is not original, but is on the same spot. We learned that they didn't have a long table as is often pictured, but three tables that fit around the pillars. We didn't take any pictures there. From the upper room we went to the Garden of Gethsamanae.

Here we are near a thousand year old olive tree.

We also visited the Orson Hyde Garden.

Next we visited the place where Peter denied Christ. There is a church there and on the top is a golden rooster. We didn't enter the church because it was not there in the time of Jesus.

We then visited the House of Ciaphas and saw the dungeon where Jesus was kept.

Outside there is a stairway from New Testament times where Jesus may have walked as he was taken to see Pontius Pilate.

The palace of Pontius pilate is now far underground and is under the Antonia Fortress. There are excavations being carried out in this place.

There are floor stones from the time of Christ that have been excavated.

We ended up at the Garden Tomb - the other site said to be where Jesus is buried.

Golgotha - the place of the Skull

The Garden Tomb