***Day 5***

Bethlehem and City of David

• The Shepherds Fields
• The Church of the Nativity
• House of the High Priest Caiaphas
• City of David excavations
• Pool of Siloam

We will start our day at the Shepherds Fields just outside of Bethlehem. Pastor Dan Farm led us in a moving 1st person narrative of a shepherd on the night the angels visitation Luke 2:8-20. We had a chance to view caves that have been venerated since the very early years of the Christian Church.

Going into the town of Bethlehem we Entered the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity, The birthplace of Jesus.

Entrance to the Church of the Nativity...The oldest continually occupied church in the world.  

Continue to Mount Zion to visit the House of the High Priest Caiaphas where Jesus was imprisoned for a night (Matt. 26: 57 - 65).

Roman steps leading from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem.

The newly excavated pool of Siloam is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast. In John 9:9-11 the blind man is healed by Jesus and told to wash in the Pool of Simoam. 

Stepped stone structure in the Old City of David. This is wall could have been the supporting structure for King Davids palace.