Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin (ca.1872)
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Compare Matthew 27:38, 55-56; Mark 15:27, 40-41; Luke 23:38, 49
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As some of you may be aware, I doubt very much that the familiar “Garden Tomb” is the actual burial place of Christ. But I think that the odds are high that the rock formation shown immediately above — often called “Gordon’s Calvary” — which is behind the Arab bus station in East Jerusalem and right beside the Garden Tomb enclosure (from which this photograph was taken), is Golgotha, the place of Christ’s crucifixion.
Crucifixion was a horrible way to die. For those with the stomach for it — and I frankly think that all of us ought to contemplate it at least once in a while, so that we can keep in mind the price that was paid for us — here’s an account of what it involved: http://www.frugalsites.net/jesus/crucifixion.htm.
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