Saturday, March 28, 2015

Pater Noster


 Perhaps the most beautiful stop on the Mount of Olives tour was the Pater Noster church, said to be the site where Jesus taught the Lord's Prayer.  The church walls have the Lord's Prayer in over 100 different languages (even including Esperanto, which gave us a laugh!)  They even have versions in Braille for the blind.

Apparently there is a debate over whether Jesus would have spoken the original Lord's prayer in Hebrew or in Aramaic, so there is a different-looking plaque that includes both of them.

Behind the church there is a grove of olive trees, and there's also an acacia tree (not the original one), which would have provided the thorny branches for Christ's crown of thorns.  (The thorns are very sharp indeed!)











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