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Visit the site where Jesus was tried and condemned by Caiaphas, the High Priest, and where Peter denied Christ. Learn about the history, architecture, and biblical significance of this place.
Oct 24, 2019 · Learn about the Sadducees, the high priests who ruled Jerusalem and tried Jesus in Caiaphas' palace. See the ruins of a possible Caiaphas' house and the room where people were flogged.
Nov 8, 2010 · After Jesus was betrayed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane, the guards brought Jesus to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest. Jesus was taken inside and tried for blasphemy, while Peter waited in the courtyard outside to find out what was going to happen.
Learn about the House of Caiaphas, where Jesus was tried by the Sanhedrin and condemned to death. Find out who Caiaphas was, his role as high priest, and his prophecy about Jesus.
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- Guardroom and Prisoner’S Cell
- Disagreement Over House of Caiaphas
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The Church of St Peter in Gallicantu is built on four different levels— upper church, middle church, guardroom and dungeon. Its design and art are a colourful blend of contemporary and ancient works. In the courtyard a statuedepicts the denial, including the rooster, the woman who questioned Peter, and a Roman soldier. Inside, on the right, are two...
The lower levels of the Church of St Peter in Gallicantu contain what are believed to have been a guardroom and a prisoner’s cell, both hewn out of bedrock. • The guardroomcontains wall fixtures to attach prisoners’ chains. Holes in the stone pillars would have been used to fasten a prisoner’s hands and feet when he was flogged. Bowls carved in the...
Though pilgrims’ reports back as far as AD 333 attest to this place being the site of the house of Caiaphas, archaeologistsare divided. Some favour an alternative site for the high priest’s house at the Armenian Orthodox Church of the House of Caiaphas on the summit of Mount Zion, adjacent to the Dormition Abbey. Jerome Murphy-O’Connorconsiders it ...
Beside the Church of St Peter in Gallicantu, excavations have brought to light a stepped street which in ancient times would have descended from Mount Zionto the Kidron Valley. These stone steps were certainly in use at the time of Christ. On the evening of his arrest, he probably descended them with his disciples on their way from the Last Supper ...
The church commemorates Peter's denial of Christ and his reconciliation after the Resurrection. It claims to be on the site of the high priest's house, where Jesus was detained before his crucifixion, but archaeologists disagree.
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The palace of the high priest where the Lord Jesus was examined before the Council in Jerusalem, the Sanhedrin, was not only mentioned in the Bible but also became a site for a Christian church to be built, on the Hill of the Upper City. The idea that this is the exact site of the House of Caiaphas is open for debate.
Leaving the house of Caiaphas, where he had been blasphemed, and the house of Herod, where he had been been mocked, Jesus is dragged before Pilate, his back torn with scourges, his head crowned with thorns; and he, who on the last day will judge the living and the dead, is himself condemned to a disgraceful death.
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