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Chris: THIS WEEK ON

"JERUSALEM DATELINE," THE

U.S. AND RUSSIA FACE OFF

IN MOSCOW OVER SYRIA.

SO PRESIDENT TRUMP IS

RIGHT TO HAVE ACTUALLY

ENFORCEDED A RED LINE THAT

OBAMA NEVER ENFORCED.

Chris: PLUS, EGYPT'S

CHRISTIANS RECOVER AFTER

TWO MAJOR TERROR ATTACKS.

THEY HAVE SAID, WE'RE

WILLING TO SUFFER FOR

JESUS' SAKE.

Chris: CHRISTIANS

CELEBRATE THE RESURRECTION

OF JESUS AT EASTER.

HELLO, AND WELCOME TO THIS

EDITION OF "JERUSALEM

DATELINE."

I'M CHRIS MITCHELL.

COMING TO YOU THIS WEEK

FROM THE GARDEN TOMB,

WHERE MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE

JESUS CHRIST ROSE FROM THE

DEAD HERE 2,000 YEARS AGO.

WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THE

RESURRECTION LATER IN THE

SHOW.

BUT FIRST IN THE NEWS,

U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE

REX TILLERSON WENT TO

MOSCOW AS PART OF THE

LATEST CRISIS IN THE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

RUSSIA AND THE UNITED

STATES.

DALE HURD HAS THAT STORY.

President Trump:

RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT

GETTING ALONG WITH RUSSIA

AT ALL.

Reporter: IT WASN'T

SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS.

U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS WERE

SUPPOSED TO IMPROVE UNDER

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION,

BUT THE SYRIAN NERVE GAS

ATTACK, BLAMED ON BASHAR

al-ASSAD, AND THE U.S.

MISSILE ATTACK AGAINST

SYRIA HAS CAUSED

U.S.-RUSSIA TIES TO HIT

BOTTOM.

THE CURRENT STATE OF

THE U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS

IS AT A LOW POINT.

Reporter: AND THE

LEVEL OF TRUST HAS

DETERIORATED.

THIS AFTER RE REX TILLERSON

FACED AN UNUSUALLY HOSTILE

RECEPTION IN MOSCOW.

THE U.S. MISSILE HIT A

SYRIAN AIR BASE, WHERE

THERE HAD BEEN RUSSIAN

MILITARY PERSONNEL.

SO DID MOSCOW KNOW ABOUT

THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS?

President Trump: I

WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT

THEY DIDN'T KNOW.

CERTAINLY THEY COULD HAVE.

THEY WERE THERE.

WE'LL FIND OUT.

Reporter: AFTER A

TENSE, TWO-HOUR,

CLOSED-DOOR MEETING, PUTIN

WAS ANGERED BY CALLING FOR

A REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA.

BUT SERGEI LAVROV SAID

EXPERIMENTS LIKE THAT,

WHICH ARE BUILT ON AN

OBSESSION WITH

OVERTHROWING DICTATORS,

TOTALATARIAN LEADERS WE'VE

ALREADY SEEN.

WE KNOW THE END OF IT WAY

TOO WELL.

THE TWO SIDES ALSO AGREED

TO DISAGREE ABOUT UKRAINE,

WHERE MOSCOW BACKS REBEL

FORCES.

WITH RELATIONS BETWEEN THE

TWO NUCLEAR POWERS

WORSENS, GOOGLE TRENDS

REPORTS INTERNET SEARCHES

FOR THE TERM "WORLD WAR

III" HAVE HIT AN ALL-TIME

HIGH.

THE WORLD'S TWO MOST

NUCLEAR POWERS CANNOT HAVE

THIS KIND OF RELATIONSHIP.

Reporter: DALE HURD,

CBN NEWS.

Chris: WE TALK MORE

ABOUT THE CRISIS BETWEEN

THE UNITED STATES AND

RUSSIA BACK IN OUR STUDIO

WITH MIDDLE EAST EXPERT

JOEL C. ROSENBERG.

JOEL, WHAT'S YOUR REACTION

TO WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW

AFTER THE TRUMP

ADMINISTRATION STRUCK THAT

SYRIAN AIR BASE?

WELL, I DON'T THINK

VLADIMIR PUTIN COULD HAVE

IMAGINED, WHEN REX

TILLERSON BECAME SECRETARY

OF STATE, THAT THE FIRST

CONVERSATION THEY MIGHT

HAVE, OR HIS GOVERNMENT

MIGHT HAVE, WOULD BE SUCH

A CONTENTIOUS ONE.

PUTIN GAVE TILLERSON THE

ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP

BECAUSE HE DID SO MANY OIL

AND GAS DEALS WITH RUSSIA.

BUT I THINK WHAT'S

INTERESTING IS THAT YOU

HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP

HAVING CHOSEN TILLERSON,

AND THIS MAY PROVE THIS

WAS A WISE CHOICE.

I WAS SKEPTICAL, BUT IF

YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO

KNOWS THE LEADERSHIP AND

KNOWS PUTIN PARTICULARLY,

AND CAN SAY, LISTEN, WE

WANT TO WORK WITH YOU, BUT

YOU CAN'T BE SUPPORTING

PEOPLE WHO ARE USING

WEAPONS OF MASS

DESTRUCTION AGAINST

ANYONE, MUCH LESS THEIR

OWN CHILDREN.

THAT'S A GOOD MESSAGE TO

SEND AND AN IMPORTANT

MESSAGE TO SEND.

I THINK MOST OF THE WORLD

HAS REACTED POSITIVELY TO

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ORDER TO

STRIKE.

AND RIGHTLY SO.

NOT IN EIGHT YEARS DID THE

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION EVER

CREATE A COST TO THE ASSAD

REGIME FOR ALL KINDS OF

ATROCITIES.

IT WAS RIGHT THAT

PRESIDENT TRUMP DID SO,

AND IT'S WRONG FOR THE

RUSSIANS TO SIDE WITH

ASSAD.

I HOPE WE SEE THE RUSSIANS

MOVE TO REMOVE ASSAD.

Chris: A LOT OF

PEOPLE HAVE SAID THIS IS A

MARKED CHANGE FROM THE

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID

THERE IS A NEW SHERIFF IN

TOWN.

WHAT NEW SIGNALS DOES THIS

SEND TO RUSSIA, IRAN, AND

OTHER ENEMIES OF THE U.S.

AND THE REGION.

IT COULD -- IT SENDS A

NEW SIGNAL IN THE SENSE

THAT THE OBAMA

ADMINISTRATION NEVER USED

MILITARY FORCE, EVEN WHILE

PROMISING IT.

WHICH, OF COURSE, WHEN THE

PRESIDENT ABANDONED HIS

OWN RED-LINE THREAT

WARNING TO ASSAD, IT

CRATERED AMERICAN

CREDIBILITY IN THE MIDDLE

EAST AND WORLDWIDE.

SO PRESIDENT TRUMP IS

RIGHT TO HAVE ACTUALLY

ENFORCED A RED LINE THAT

OBAMA NEVER ENFORCED.

PRESIDENT TRUMP EXPOSED

THE LIE OF THE PUTIN

ADMINISTRATION THAT SAID

THAT ALL OF THE CHEMICAL

WEAPONS HAD BEEN REMOVED

FROM SYRIA.

CLEARLY THAT WASN'T TRUE.

THE QUESTION NOW IS

WHETHER THE PRESIDENT TRUMP

ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPS AN

ACTUAL STRATEGY.

WWE'VE HEARD THEY WANT TO

MOVE ASSAD, OR THEY'RE NOT

REMOVING ASSAD.

THEY'VE GOT TO MAKE SOME

DETERMINATIONS.

IN THE SHORT-TERM, TRUMP

IS RIGHT TO BE CAUTIOUS,

NOT TO TRY TO OWN SYRIA.

SYRIA IS A DISASTER.

IT IS IMPLODING.

WE CAN'T FIX IT.

BUT WE CAN HAVE SOME

OBJECTIVES.

ONE, YOU CAN'T USE WEAPONS

OF MASS DESTRUCTION

WITHOUT PUNISHMENT.

TWO, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE

OUT THE SYRIAN AIR FORCE,

THAT WE ARE GOING TO

CREATE SAFE ZONES FOR

SYRIANS TO COME AND HAVE

AIR COVER AND HUMANITARIAN

RELIEF.

THESE WOULD BE SOME

INITIAL OBJECTIVES.

BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO HAVE

AN OBJECTIVE OF PROTECTING

ISRAEL AND JORDAN FROM

RETALIATION BY THE ASSAD

REGIME.

AND YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE AN

OBJECTIVE THAT IRAN CAN'T

END UP THE OWNER OF SYRIA.

THIS WOULD BE A HORRIBLE

CONCLUSION TO THE CIVIL

WAR.

ARE THOSE DOABLE?

IT DEPENDS ON HOW SERIOUS

TRUMP IS.

HE MADE A FIRST GOOD STEP.

BUT WE'VE GOT TO SEE WHAT

ARE HIS ACTUAL GOALS, AND

HOW WILL HE SEEK TO

ACHIEVE THEM.

Chris: IN OTHER NEWS

IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THE

VICTIMS OF THE PALM SUNDAY

BOMBINGS IN EGYPT WERE

LAID TO REST.

ISIS KILLED NEARLY 50 AND

WOUNDED WELL OVER A

HUNDRED.

WE DISCUSSED HOW EGYPTIAN

CHRISTIANS ARE DEALING

WITH THIS LATEST ATTACK,

AS WELL AS CENTURIES OF

PERSECUTION WITH DICK

BROGDEN, A CHRISTIAN

LEADER IN CAIRO.

THIS IS NOT ANYTHING

NEW TO THE CHRISTIAN

COMMUNITY.

IN WHAT WAY ARE THEY

RESPONDING BIBLICALLY?

THE EGYPTIAN CHURCH IS

MARVELOUS IN THE SENSE

THAT THERE HAS BEEN A LONG

HISTORY OF OPPRESSION.

SO FOR TWO MIL MILLENNIA, THE

CHURCH IN EGYPT HAS

SUFFERED.

AND WHAT IS REMARKABLE AND

BIBLICAL ABOUT THE

EGYPTIAN CHURCH'S RESPONSE

IS THEY HAVE NOT RESPONDED

IN ANGER OR BY TAKING OF

WEAPONS.

FROM THE COPTIC CHURCH ALL

THE WAY DOWN TO LAIHI,

THEY HAVE TURNED THE OTHER

CHEEK.

THEY HAVE SAID, WE ARE

WILLING TO SUFFER FOR

JESUS' SAKE.

SO EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN

DIFFICULT, WE APPLAUD OUR

BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR

THE DIGNITY AND PATIENCE

AND GRACE THEY HAVE

EXHIBITED DURING THEIR

TIMES OF SUFFERING.

Chris: DICK, HOW CAN

CHRISTIANS AROUND THE

WORLD BE PRAYING FOR THE

CHURCH IN EGYPT NOW?

WOULD YOU PRAY THAT THE

CHURCH IN EGYPT WOULD NOT

ONLY SURVIVE THESE

MILITANT ATTACKS, BUT HAVE

GRACE AND FAVOR AND

COURAGE TO AR ARTICULATE AND

OPEN UP THEIR MOUTHS AND

SHARE WITH MUSLIMS ACROSS

THE NATION THE REASON FOR

THE HOPE WE HAVE.

IN THESE TRAGEDIES WE ARE

NOT DISMAYED BECAUSE WE

ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN

RESURRECTION.

WE ARE BELIEVING IN THE

END GOD MAKES ALL THINGS

RIGHT.

ULTIMATELY, THAT WILL BE

WHEN JESUS RETURNS.

IN THE MEANTIME, WOULD YOU

PRAY THAT THE EGYPTIAN

CHURCH WOULD NOT JUST

ABSORB THESE DIFFICULTIES

BUT BE REACTIVE IN

PROCLAIMING THE REASONS

FOR THE THINGS THEY HAVE,

AND WITH JESUS ALL THINGS

ARE MADE RIGHT.

Chris: UP NEXT, HOW

IMPORTANT IS THE

RESURRECTION TO THE

CHRISTIAN FAITH?

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Chris: WELCOME BACK

TO "JERUSALEM DATELINE."

BEHIND ME IS THE TOMB

WHERE MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE

JESUS CHRIST WAS LAID TO

REST, AND THEN THREE DAYS

LATER ROSE FROM THE DEAD.

AS PAUL STRAND REPORTS, IT

IS THE RESURRECTION THAT

IS THE CORE OF THE

CHRISTIAN FAITH.

Paul: TO BELIEVE THE

EVENTS AROUND THAT FIRST

EASTER, YOU HAVE TO

BELIEVE THAT JESUS DID

EXIST AND THE NEW

TESTAMENT CAN BE TRUSTED.

BIBLICAL SCHOLAR JONATHAN

MARROW.

THE FACT IS WE HAVE FAR

MORE SOURCES FOR JESUS OF

NAZARETH THAN WE DO FOR

MANY HISTORICAL FIGURES IN

THE FIRST CENTURY.

WE HAVE AT LEAST 18.

12 ARE NON-CHRISTIAN

SOURCES.

Paul: AS FOR THE NEW

TESTAMENT...

THESE BOOKS ARE THE

BEST ATTESTED PIECES OF

ANCIENT LITERATURE WE

POSSESS.

Paul: HE SAYS THE

BIBLE HAS FAR MORE ANCIENT

PAGES SURVIVING THAN ANY

OTHER BOOK FROM ANTIQUITY.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

OVER 5800 GREEK MAN

MANUSCRIPTS.

MOST BOOKS WE WORK FOR

HAVE MAYBE, AT MOST, A

DOZEN.

Paul: MARROW SAYS

EVERYTHING HANGS ON IF

JESUS HAS RISEN FROM THE

DEAD.

PAUL MADE THE ARGUMENT,

YOU CAN TEST THIS.

IF THE RESURRECTION DIDN'T

HAPPEN, CHRISTIANITY IS

FALSE, GO TO THE NEXT

RELIGION.

Paul: BUT CHRISTIAN

EXPERTS SAY TO DISMISS THE

RESURRECTION, ANY THEORY

YOU COME UP WITH HAS TO

EXPLAIN THREE HISTORICAL

FACTS.

THAT THERE WAS AN EMPTY

TOMB THREE DAYS AFTER

JESUS' BODY HAD BEEN

PLACED IN IT.

HE APPEARED IN NUMEROUS

PLACES FOR SEVEN WEEKS

AFTER HIS CRUCIFIXION.

AND SOMETHING HUGE

HAPPENED TO TURN ALL OF

THE COWARDLY DISCIPLES

INTO BOLD BELIEVERS,

PROCLAIMING A DISCIPLE

THEY ALL WERE WILLING TO

DIE FOR.

APOLOGISTS LIKE DARYL

HEREPOINT OUT WHEN YOU

LOOK AT IT ALL THE WAY

THROUGH, IT IS ACTUALLY

EASIER TO BELIEVE IN THE

RESURRECTION THAN ITS

ALTERNATIVES.

IF YOU'RE GOING AROUND

PREACHING JESUS WAS

PHYSICALLY RAISED FROM THE

DEAD AND PEOPLE KNEW WHERE

HE WAS BURIED AND KNEW

WHERE THEY COULD FIND HIS

BONES, THAT MESSAGE

WOULDN'T EVEN GET OFF THE

GROUND.

Paul: JOSH MCDOWELL

SAYS THIS DISCIPLES KNEW

THIS.

IN THE RESURRECTION,

WHERE WAS THE HARDEST

PLACE IN THE WORLD TO

CONVINCE ANYONE IT WAS

TRUE IF IT WAS FALSE?

JERUSALEM.

WHERE A 15 MINUTE WALK BY

ANYONE COULD CONFIRM THE

EMPTINESS OF THE TOMB.

Paul: MATTHEW 28

SHOWS THAT THE JEWISH

LEADERS BRIBED THE GUARDS

TO SAY THEY HAD FALLEN

ASLEEP.

AND IF THEY WERE MAKING UP

JESUS' RESURRECTION, WOULD

THEY HAVE LIVED AND DIED

FOR HIM FOR A FICTION THEY

THEMSELVES MADE UP.

IF THEY KNEW IT, YOU

WOULD HAVE TO SAY, HERE

ARE THESE MEN WHO THE NOT

ONLY DIED FOR THE LIE, BUT

THEY KNEW IT WAS A LIE.

YOU DON'T DIE KNOWINGLY

FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU

KNOW YOU MADE UP.

YOU WOULD BACK OFF.

AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN,

EITHER.

Reporter: THESE AND

OTHER EXPERTS SAY IN

TRUTH, IT TAKES SOMETHING

AS RADICAL AS JESUS'

RESURRECTION TO TRANSFORM

COWARDLY PETER, WHO WAS SO

SCARED BEFORE THE

CRUCIFIXION HE SWORE HE

DIDN'T EVEN KNOW JESUS.

YOU SEE PETER GOING

FROM COWARD TO THIS

COURAGEOUS CHAMPION, WHO

IS SAYING, LOOK, HERE I

STAND.

THIS IS WHAT I'M SAYING.

Paul: MARROW POINTS

OUT JESUS' BROTHER, JAMES,

WAS INSTANTLY CHANGED.

JAMES DIDN'T FOLLOW JESUS

DURING HIS EARTHLY

MINISTRY.

HE THOUGHT HE WAS CRAZY.

JAMES THOUGHT HE WAS

EMBARRASSING THE FAMILY

AND EVERYTHING.

AND JESUS APPEARED TO HIM,

AND HE BECAME THE LEADER

OF THE CHURCH OF

JERUSALEM.

AND JAMES BECOMES AN EARLY

LEADER IN THE CHURCH AND

WAS PERSECUTED AND

EVENTUALLY KILLED FOR THAT

BELIEF.

Paul: AND APOLOGISTS

SAY I IT COULD ONLY BE A

RESURRECTED JESUS SHOWING

UP LATER THAT COULD CHANGE

ITS MAIN MISSIONARY.

PAUL WENT FROM CITY TO

CITY, CASTING HIS VOTE TO

HAVE HIM EXECUTED, BUT IN

HIS OWN WORDS, CHRIST

APPEARED TO HIM.

HOW CAN SOMEONE LIKE A

SAUL, WHO BECOMES PAUL,

EVEN EXISTS.

HE WAS HOLDING THE CODE

WHEN PEOPLE WERE KILLING

THE FIRST CHRISTIANS.

HE WAS A ADAMANTLY OPPOSED

AND THEN HE WAS ONE OF THE

GREATEST BELIEVERS.

HE WENT FROM A

CHRISTIAN HATER TO A

CHRISTIAN LOVER.

SOMETHING HAPPENED IN

PAUL'S LIFE THAT I'VE

NEVER FOUND ANY OTHER

EXPLANATION THAT EVEN

COMES CLOSE TO SATISFYING

ME EXCEPT THAT JESUS

APPEARED TO PAUL AFTER THE

RESURRECTION.

Paul: THE FIRST

CENTURY JEWS BELIEVED

WOMEN WERE SECOND-CLASS

CITIZENS.

SO IF THEY WERE LYING,

THEY MADE THE STORY HARDER

TO ACCEPT BY PUTTING WOMEN

AT THE FOREFRONT.

MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE,

AND JOHN ALL REPORT WOMEN

FINDING JESUS' EMPTY TOMB.

IN THE FIRST TESTIMONY,

WHERE WOMEN'S TESTIMONY

WOULD BE LIKE THAT OF A

SLAVE -- YOU WOULD NEVER

DO THAT.

YOU WOULD NEVER MAKE UP

THE STORY THIS WAY, SO THE

REASON THE STORY IS THIS

WAY IS BECAUSE IT MUST BE

GROUNDED IN WHAT HAPPENED.

Paul: THE APOSTLE

PAUL IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15

SUGGESTED DOUBTERS GO TALK

TO THEM.

YOU'VE GOT LIVING

HISTORY.

WUYOU'VE GOT THE PEOPLE WHO

WERE THERE TO CROSS-CHECK

WHATEVER MESSAGE IS THERE.

IT IS NOT AS THOUGH NO ONE

WOULD HAVE CHALLENGED IT.

YOU'VE GOT WITNESSES.

IT HAS ALL THE RING OF

TRUTH, AND NOT THE RING OF

THAT CONSPIRACY THEORY,

WHERE THEY MADE THIS UP.

A LOT OF THINGS SAY THE

APPEARANCES OF JESUS WERE

HALLUCINATIONS.

500 PEOPLE AT ONE TIME.

Paul: BUT HE STUDIED

HALLUCINATIONS, AND NO TWO

PEOPLE EVER HAVE THE SAME

HALLUCINATION.

WOULD 500 PEOPLE HAVE

THE SAME HALLUCINATION?

PAUL WOULD BE 500 MIRACLES

EQUAL TO THE RESURRECTION.

Paul: BUT TO ACCEPT

THE RESURRECTION, YOU HAVE

TO BELIEVE IN GOD.

IF IT IS POSSIBLE THAT

GOD EXISTS, THEN MIRACLES

BECOME POSSIBLE.

AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE

RESURRECTION EVIDENCE, IT

IS PRETTY REMARKABLE HOW

STRONG IT IS.

IT IS NOT A BLIND FAITH

KIND OF THING LIKE

BELIEVING IN THE EASTER

BUNNY.

CHRISTIANS DON'T BELIEVE

THAT JESUS ROSE FROM THE

DEAD BECAUSE THE BIBLE

SAID SO.

THEY BELIEVE HE ROSE FROM

THE DEAD BECAUSE THAT'S

WHAT THE EARLIEST

DOCUMENTS SHOW, AND THAT'S

THE BEST EXPLANATION OF

THE DATA.

Paul: PAUL STRAND,

CBN NEWS.

Chris: UP NEXT, SEE

THE PLACE WHERE PILOT MAY

HAVE SENTENCED JESUS TO

DEATH.

Chris: WELCOME BACK

TO "JERUSALEM DATELINE."

IT'S A BUSY WEEK IN

JERUSALEM, WHERE PEOPLE

ARE CELEBRATING BOTH

PASSOVER AND HOLY WEEK.

WE WANT TO TAKE YOU INSIDE

THTHE WALLS OF THE OLD CITY

TO HARROD'S PLACE, A PLACE

WHERE SOME BELIEVE PONTIUS

PILOT SENTENCED JESUS TO

DEATH.

Reporter: AT THE

WESTERN EDGE OF THE OLD

CITY, THE TOWER OF DAVID

STANDS ABOVE THE WALLS.

16 YEARS AGO ARCHEOLOGISTS

FOUND A BUILDING WHILE

WORKING ON THE TOWER OF

DAVID MUSEUM.

RECORDS ON ITS WALLS GO

BACK EVEN BEFORE THE TIME

OF JESUS AND THE ROMAN

GOVERNOR WHO SENTENCED HIM

TO THE CROSS, PONTIUS

PILOT.

FOR YEARS EXPERTS

SUGGESTED THAT PILOT

HANDED DOWN HIS DEATH

SENTENCE FROM THE OTHER

SIDE OF THE CITY, WHERE

THE ROMAN SOLDIERS WERE

HOUSED.

BUT RECENT EVIDENCE

UNCOVERED HERE INDICATES

THAT THE LUXURY LOVING

PILOT WAS MORE LIKELY TO

HAVE PRONOUNCED JUDGMENT

HERE.

THIS ARCHEOLOGIST HELPED

DISCOVER THE PALACE SITE

IN 1999.

HE IS FAMILIAR WITH THE

HISTORY OF THE HARROD

WALLS.

UNTIL NOW, THOSE

IMPRESSIVE WALLS ARE THE

ONLY REMAINS FROM HARROD'S

PALACE.

WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT

HAPPENED TO THE SUPER

STRUCTURES.

MAYBE IT WAS DESTROYED IN

THE BIG REVOLT.

MAYBE IT WAS DESTROYED BY

THE ROMANS.

WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY

WHERE JESUS WAS TRIED,

WHERE HE HAD HIS INTERVIEW

BEFORE PONTIUS PILOT.

BUT WE KNOW IT IS

SOMEWHERE IN HARROD'S

PALACE.

Reporter: DAVID

PALEGGI IS PASTOR OF THE

CHURCH, JUST STEPS AWAY

FROM THE PALACE SITE.

IT EVENTUALLY BECAME

ROMAN PROPERTY AFTER

HARROD'S DEATH, AND EVERY

YEAR PONTIUS PILOT WOULD

COME FROM SESERIA TO

JERUSALEM, DURING THE TIME

OF PASSOVER, TO OVERSEE

THE SECURITY OF THE CITY

DURING THE FESTIVAL THAT

THE JEWS CALLED THE "FEAST

OF FREEDOM."

IT WAS AT THIS TIME IF

THERE WAS GOING TO BE

TROUBLE IN JERUSALEM, IT

WOULD BE OVER THE PASSOVER

HOLIDAY.

Reporter: PALEGGI

SAYS IN A WAY, IT

ENCOMPASSES THE ENTIRE

LIFE STORY OF JESUS.

SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN

SAYING FOR A HALF CENTURY

THAT THE LIFE OF JESUS

BEGINS AT THE TOWER OF

DAVID, OR WHAT WAS THEN

HARROD'S PALACE.

THAT'S WHEN THE MAJI COME

TO VISIT HIM.

AND PONTIUS PILOT

SENTENCES HIM TO DEATH

PRETTY MUCH IN THE SAME

LOCATION.

Reporter: THIS

ISRAELI ARCHEOLOGIST,

RENEE, IS STRUCK BY IT,

EVEN THOUGH SHE HELPED

BEGIN THE DIGGING.

IT IS LIKE AN UNION.

YOU PEEL IT AND PEEL IT,

AND IT NEVER ENDS, AND

THEN YOU CRY A BIT.

Reporter: PALEGGI

CALLS THE TOWER OF DAVID

THE BEST MUSEUM IN THE

CITY, AND SAYS TOURISTS

WOULD DO WELL TO START

THEIR JOURNEY HERE.

NOW WE HAVE THE EXTRA

BONUS OF HAVING THE VERY

PLACE WHERE JESUS WAS SENT

TO EXECUTION BY PONTIUS

PILOT, AND THIS WILL HELP

CHRISTIANS BETTER

VISUALIZE THOSE MONUMENT

MONUMENTOUS EVENTS THAT

HAPPENED TO JESUS OF

NAZARETH IN THE LAST WEEKS

OF HIS LIFE.

Reporter: AND JUST A

COUPLE OF MILES AWAY, THE

MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHERE

SCRIPTURE SAYS HE'LL COME

AGAIN.

JOHN WAGGI, CBN NEWS,

JERUSALEM.

Chris: COMING UP, HOW

DID JESUS CELEBRATE THE

PASSOVER?

FIND OUT WHEN WE COME

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Chris: WELCOME BACK.

HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT

WE DO ON ONE OF OUR SOCIAL

MEDIA PLATFORMS.

THIS IS CALLED "HEBREW

WORD WEDNESDAY."

AND THIS WEEK WE'RE

CELEBRATING PASSOVER.

WE ARE IN THE SEASON OF

PASSOVER, BEGINNING WITH A

PASSOVER SADER.

IN LUKE 22: 7, JESUS TELLS

HIS DISCIPLES, HE SAYS, GO

AND PREPARE THE PASSOVER.

IN VERSE 15, HE SAYS,

"I'VE EARNESTLY DESIRED TO

KEEP THIS PASSOVER WITH

YOU."

HE EARNESTLY DESIRED TO

KEEP THE FESTIVAL OF

PASSER AND HAVE A SADAR

WITH THE DISCIPLES.

EVEN AT THE VERY CRUX OF

GOING INTO HIS

PERSECUTIONS, HE TELLS US

ONE DAY IN THE MESSIANIC

KINGDOM, WE WILL COME AND

SIT AT HIS TABLE AND WE

WILL DINE WITH ABRAHAM,

ISAAC, AND JACOB.

AND WE WILL LISTEN TO OUR

MASTER SHARE AND TEACH AND

INFORM US AS HIS PEOPLE

ABOUT THE WAYS OF HIS

KINGDOM.

Chris: WELL, THAT'S

IT FOR THIS EDITION.

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THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS

WEEK FROM THE GARDEN TOMB.

TO ALL OF OUR CHRISTIAN

FRIENDS, HAPPY PASSOVER.

AND TO ALL OUR CHRISTIAN

FRIENDS, HAPPY

RESURRECTION DAY.

I'M CHRIS