THE GARDEN TOMB OF JESUS

GARDEN TOMB

Not everyone believes that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is truly the grave of Jesus. Many non-Catholic sects hold that it is actually in the Garden Tomb, set in a quiet enclosure just outside the Damascus Gate.


The New Testament declares that ‘Now in the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden and in the Garden a new sepulchre, where in was never man yet laid.

Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spice, as the manner of Jews is to bury.

Picture 64: The Garden Tomb just outside of Damascus Gate.

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews preparation day; for the sepulcher was nigh at hand. [John 19: 40-42]


The evidence for a probable site of execution near to an exceptionally large cistern [which indicates the possibility of a Vineyard Garden] and a Herodian tomb which meets all mentioned in the New Testament makes the present garden a meaningful center for Christian meditation and devotion

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