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Church of Lazarus's Tomb
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Altar and apse of the Church of Lazarus's Tomb. The inscription reads, “Jesus said to them: I am the Resurrection and the Life.”
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Blurry picture of left side.
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The right side. This is Jesus rebuking Martha for being worried about many things.
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The entrance to Lazarus's tomb. It would have been covered with a fixed stone. (Only one in ten tombs had rolling stones.)
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The interior of the tomb.
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The exit from the tomb.
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The Judean desert, the smallest desert in the world.
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The Judean Desert.
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More Judean Desert.
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Remains of the 1967 war with Jordan.
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The Judean Desert.
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The Dead Sea.
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Funky formations in the Judean Desert near Masada.
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An acacia tree. God commanded that wood from this tree be used to make the Ark of the Covenant.
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Masada. This is where the Zealots had their last stand and killed themselves.
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Ruins at the top of the plateau where the Zealots were holed out. They used a palatial fortress built by Herod the Great.
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More ruins.
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This was a double casement wall. It afforded extra protection.
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More ruins at Masada.
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Model of the fortress. The palace had bathhouses, 29 large storage areas, cisterns, a private palace, a public palace, a swimming pool, and a place for breeding pigeons.
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The Judean Desert from atop Masada.
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Another view of the Judean Desert from atop Masada.
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The Judean Desert, from Masada.
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