Day 9 – Jerusalem

Today was our last day in Jerusalem before crossing into Jordan.

Tour highlights of the day included:
• The City of David – the city of Jerusalem before the time of Jesus, before even the time of Solomon and the first Temple,
• The pool of Siloam – where Jesus healed the blind man (John 9)
• The water supply system over three successive time periods, including Hezekiah's tunnel (2 Kings 20:20 and 2 Chronicles 32:30)
• The tomb of David – the only king buried within Jerusalem,
• The large model of Jerusalem
• The Shrine of the Book – an impressive display of Qumran artefacts and scrolls,
• The Holocaust Museum – very moving.

In the afternoon we visited the site of Caiaphas’s palace where Jesus was taken before judgement by Pilate and where Peter denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed three times (Matthew 26). The church on this site is aptly named St Peter in Gallicantu (Latin for cock-crow).

And then we walked back through the bazaar in the Old City and spent all of our remaining shekels.