I Appeal To Caesar!

End Notes, Sources & Comments

End Notes for Prologue P. 1 The Quote about “the single holy place”: Joachim Jeremias , Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus , p. 29. P. 1 The Size of the Temple. Alec Garrard, The Splendor of the Temple, p. 31: “… the temple was a vast building for its period, covering some thirty-five acres (fourteen hectares) — about one-fifth of the area of the city of Jerusalem — with huge retaining walls built around its periphery to support the flat platform on which it was built.” P. 2 Sleeping in the Temple. Gerrard, p. 33: “As elsewhere, the porches around the outside of the northern Outer Courtyard were designated for people to congregate and find shelter; we read that some people even slept here. This courtyard was outside the original Temple Mount area, and the gates were not locked at night, so people were free to stay and sleep.” P. 3 Key References on Healing. Hebrews 13:8: “ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Psalm 103:2-5; Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 8:17; Mark 16:18; James 5:14; 1 Peter 2:24. Alfred Edersheim, The Temple, pp. 35-36: “These ‘porches,’ as they are called in the New Testament, or cloisters, were among the finest architectural features of the Temple. They ran all-round the inside of its wall and bounded the outer enclosure of the Court of the Gentiles. They consisted of double rows of Corinthian pillars, all monoliths, wholly cut out of one block of marble, each pillar being 11.4 meters (37 ½ feet) high. A flat roof, richly ornamented, rested against the wall, in which also the outer row of pillars was inserted ….” Edersheim also commented on the use of the porches: “These halls or porches around the Court of the Gentiles must have been most convenient places for friendly or religious intercourse — for meetings or discussions. Here Jesus, when still a child, was found by His parents disputing with the doctors; here He afterward so often taught the people; and here the first assemblies of the Christians must have taken place when ‘continuing daily with one accord in the Temple … P. 4 The Porches.