A view of the Old City of Jerusalem from Mount Scopus
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John 5:1 is so short that I\u2019ll just give you the full text here, in both English and Greek:<\/p>\n
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\u201cAfter this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u039c\u03b5\u03c4\u1f70 \u03c4\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c4\u03b1\u00a0<\/span>\u1f26\u03bd \u1f11\u03bf\u03c1\u03c4\u1f74 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f38\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b1\u03af\u03c9\u03bd, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76\u00a0<\/span>\u1f00\u03bd\u03ad\u03b2\u03b7 \u1f38\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u1f39\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03cc\u03bb\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I want to concentrate, simply, on the idea of \u201cgoing up\u201d to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
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The city of Jerusalem is situated on a relatively high mountain ridge, with the Mediterranean coast to the west and the even-deeper Jordan River Valley to the east.<\/p>\n
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Thus, when \u201ca certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves\u201d (after which he was cared for by a \u201cGood Samaritan\u201d), he was really going down<\/em>. \u00a0And anybody who\u2019s ever driven the road from Jericho to Jerusalem knows how steep the grade is upwards.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
1 Nephi gets it exactly right when \u2014 clever boy, that Joseph Smith! \u2014 Lehi and the members of his family consistently go down from Jerusalem into the wilderness and then return up to Jerusalem when they\u2019re sent back.<\/p>\n
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But it\u2019s even more than that. \u00a0Jerusalem is the site of the temple of God, the mountain of the Lord. \u00a0So the pilgrim psalms in the Bible are \u201csongs of ascent.\u201d<\/p>\n
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And, even today, Jews who immigrate to Israel are said to be \u201cmaking aliyah<\/em>,\u201d where aliyah<\/em> means ascent<\/em>. \u00a0(Think of the Israeli national airline, El Al, the name of which means \u201cto the skies,\u201d or \u201cskywards.\u201d)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
In modern temples, too, worshipers climb up ever higher in the building as they perform temple ordinances.<\/p>\n
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This is a very rich and very ancient idea.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 John 5:1 is so short that I\u2019ll just give you the full text here, in both English and Greek: \u00a0 \u201cAfter this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.\u201d \u00a0 \u039c\u03b5\u03c4\u1f70 \u03c4\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c4\u03b1\u00a0\u1f26\u03bd \u1f11\u03bf\u03c1\u03c4\u1f74 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f38\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b1\u03af\u03c9\u03bd, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76\u00a0\u1f00\u03bd\u03ad\u03b2\u03b7 \u1f38\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u1f39\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03cc\u03bb\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1. \u00a0 I want to concentrate, simply, on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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