Jerusalem

"AND WHEN HE HAD MADE A SCOURGE of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple"
( John 2 : 15).
Jesus accused the money changers (opposite)
of making the house prayer" a den of the of thieves."
To pay the half - shekel template tax, Jewish
pilgrims had to change their money into the
trusted coinage of Tyre: tetradrachm (bottom)
is a shekel weight- half an ounce - or silver penny.
Jesus looked on one of Tiberius (upper)
When He said ,"render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's"
(Mark 12:17).
Widow's mite was bronze lepton of Pontius Pilate (left).
Only the "Wailing Wall" (top) remains of Herod's Temple's.
For centuries Jews came
here to mourn the temple's destruction A.D. 70.
June 14, 1967: They return by tens of thousands to them 19 years
by Arab Jordan .
Many tuck prayers in niches.

(from Everyday Life in BIBLE TIMES)
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