The Golden Gate (Chapter 49 of Jesus: His Story In Stone)

This gate is to remain shut. It must not be opened; no one may enter through it. It is to remain shut because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it. –Ezra 44:2

The Golden Gate is the entrance to Jerusalem that Jesus would have used for His triumphal ride on Palm Sunday. For over 500 years it has been closed; not a single soul has passed into or out of it.

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Mikveh (Chapter 41 of Jesus: His Story In Stone)

Those who accepted Peter’s message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. –Acts 2:41

“That day” was the Feast of Pentecost, fifty days after Jesus’ ascension into heaven. Peter, newly filled with the Holy Spirit, had just delivered a sizzler of a sermon to a Jerusalem crowd who were “cut to the heart.”

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