The group looked into having the ink tested but the only entity in the area with such technology was the Jerusalem police.

Pope Benedict XVI visited the site on May 9, 2009, gave a speech, and looked out from the top of the mountain in the direction of Jerusalem.

In 1988, before the center's dedication, a few Jerusalem locals complained that the arrangement of the windows at night looked like a Christian cross.

Their vision of the New Jerusalem looked for the reunification of the twelve tribes around an eschatological Temple.

In Jerusalem from early times, Jews had looked to the east for help.

In the Apostolic Age ( largely the 1st century ) the Christian Church comprised an indefinite number of local Churches that in the initial years looked to the first church at Jerusalem as its main centre and point of reference.

It is not known exactly how the temple looked, but it is believed to have followed the traditional Semitic-Canaanite architectural form, resembling the Temple of Jerusalem.

With the conversion of Sergius Paulus, Paul begins to gain prominence over Barnabas from the point where the name " Paul ," his Roman name, is substituted for " Saul " ( 13: 9 ); instead of " Barnabas and Saul " as heretofore ( 11: 30 ; 12: 25 ; 13: 2, 7 ) we now read " Paul and Barnabas " ( 13: 43, 46, 50 ; 14: 20 ; 15: 2, 22, 35 ); only in 14: 14 and 15: 12, 25 does Barnabas again occupy the first place, in the first passage with recollection of 14: 12, in the last two, because Barnabas stood in closer relation to the Jerusalem church than Paul.

Returning from this first missionary journey to Antioch, they were again sent up to Jerusalem to consult with the church there regarding the relation of Gentiles to the church ( Acts 15: 2 ; Galatians 2: 1 ).

Once again, we see the imagery of the marriage: " I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Chapter 5 deals with a visit to Jerusalem, and chapter 7 opens with Jesus again in Galilee since " he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him " — a consequence of the incident in Jerusalem described in chapter 5.

At the start of his ministry Jesus is in Jerusalem for Passover, then he is in Galilee for the following Passover, before going up to Jerusalem again for his death at a third Passover.

Yet it was probably only in the middle of the next century, at the earliest, that Jerusalem again became the capital of Judah.

But after a brief interval war broke out again, and again Sennacherib led an army into Judah, one detachment of which threatened Jerusalem (; ).

When Paul came again to Jerusalem after the second and after the third journey ( Acts 18: 22 ; 21: 17 sq.

Both Isabella and Amalric died in 1205 and again an underage girl, Isabella and Conrad's daughter Maria of Montferrat, became queen of Jerusalem.

I, Ulfila, bishop and confessor, have always so believed, and in this, the one true faith, I make the journey to my Lord ; I believe in one God the Father, the only unbegotten and invisible, and in his only-begotten son, our Lord and God, the designer and maker of all creation, having none other like him ( so that one alone among all beings is God the Father, who is also the God of our God ); and in one Holy Spirit, the illuminating and sanctifying power, as Christ said after his resurrection to his apostles: " And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high " ( Luke 24: 49 ) and again " But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you " ( Acts 1: 8 ); being neither God ( the Father ) nor our God ( Christ ), but the minister of Christ ... subject and obedient in all things to the Son ; and the Son, subject and obedient in all things to God who is his Father ... ( whom ) he ordained in the Holy Spirit through his Christ.

When he reached Jerusalem, he received a message from the Venetian senate requesting him again to accept the Paduan professorship, which had become vacant by the death of his friend and pupil Fallopius.

The Prophet focuses once again on Jerusalem: " Woe to the provoking, and redeemed city ... She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received discipline.

The result of this breach of treaty was that Damascus would never trust the Crusader states again, and the loss of a sympathetic Muslim state was a blow from which later monarchs of Jerusalem could not recover.

# Nirtzah נירצה – say " See you in Jerusalem again!

With the return of UN peacekeeping forces to Israel on 21 July 1948 the Headquarters for UNTSO was moved again on October 7, 1948 for the third and final time to Government House Jerusalem.

In the mid-1230s, Frederick's viceroy was forced to leave Acre, and in 1244, following a siege, Jerusalem itself was lost again to a new Muslim offensive.

" The caravan of all ages, from the interior of Arabia and from the Persian Gulf, from Hadhramaut on the ocean, and even from Sabea ( Sheba ) or Yemen, appear to have pointed to Petra as a common centre ; and from Petra the tide seems again to have branched out in every direction, to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jerusalem, and Damascus, and by other routes, terminating at the Mediterranean Sea.

The Jews accepted, however, in order to ensure they would not rise against them soon again, the Syrian king and regent broke their promise and tore down the walls of Jerusalem before leaving.

In 1110 Beirut was added to the territory of Jerusalem, again with help from the Genoese.

" The Holy One, blessed be His name, said to Elijah, ' Behold, the precious gift which I have bestowed on my world: though a man sins again and again, but returns in penitence, I will receive him '" ( Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 28b ).

Because Daniel continues to pray three times a day to God towards Jerusalem, he is accused and King Darius, forced by his own decree, throws Daniel into the lions ' den.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

Jehoiakim died while the Babylonians were marching towards Jerusalem and Jehoiakim's eight-year-old son Jehoiachin assumed the throne.

This force captured the Sinai and garrisoned the extended lines of communication, but in early 1917 their advance was stopped at Gaza until towards the end of the year when a greatly enlarged force of infantry and mounted troops captured Beersheba, most of southern Palestine and Jerusalem.

Jesus travels to Jerusalem, and the opposition intensifies: he is tested by Pharisees immediately he begins to move towards the city, and when he arrives he is soon in conflict with the Temple and other religious leaders.

The four canonical Gospels all state that the Last Supper took place towards the end of the week, after Jesus ' triumphal entry into Jerusalem and that Jesus and his disciples shared a meal shortly before Jesus was crucified at the end of that week.

The overall narrative that is shared in all Gospel accounts that leads to the Last Supper is that after the Triumphal entry into Jerusalem early in the week, and encounters with various people and the Jewish elders, Jesus and his disciples share a meal towards the end of the week.

The French knight Guillaume de Bois in his letter, dating from the early 13th century, written in Palestine and addressed to the bishop of Besançon, claimed that he had heard that the king of the Georgians was heading towards Jerusalem with a huge army and had already conquered many cities of the Saracens.

* Nestorian monk Rabban Bar Sauma begins his pilgrimage from China towards Jerusalem.

Amalric turned towards Egypt because Muslim territory to the east of Jerusalem had fallen under the control of the powerful Zengid sultan Nur ad-Din.

Jerusalem could now expand only to the southwest, towards Egypt, and in 1153 Ascalon, the last Fatimid outpost in Palestine, fell to the crusaders.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

Between 1948 and 1967, when Jordanian authorities refused permission to Jews to enter the Old City of Jerusalem, Jews made pilgrimages to rooftops on Mount Zion and prayed towards the site of the ancient Holy of Holies.

" When Christians in fourth-century Rome could first freely begin to build churches, they customarily located the sanctuary towards the west end of the building in imitation of the sanctuary of the Jerusalem Temple.

During the crusade, knights and peasants from many nations of Western Europe travelled over land and by sea, first to Constantinople and then on towards Jerusalem, as crusaders ; the peasants greatly outnumbered the knights.

The great French nobles and their trained armies of knights, however, were not the first to undertake the journey towards Jerusalem.

He led his followers south towards the Mediterranean Sea, in the belief that the sea would part on their arrival, allowing him and his followers to march to Jerusalem, but this did not happen.

In 19th-century Jerusalem a college was typically an endowment for supporting ten adult scholars rather than an educational institution in the modern sense ; towards the end of the century a school for orphans was founded providing for some rabbinic studies.

With Syria united under one ruler, Jerusalem could only expand its influence to the south, towards Egypt.

The direction of prayer was shifted towards Mecca from Jerusalem and the most negative verses about Jews were set down after this time.

; 1842: Nadir Baxter, of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, died in 1842 and donated £ 1, 000 in his will, stating that it be paid " towards the political restoration of the Jews to Jerusalem and to their own land ; and as I conscientiously believe also that the institution by the Anglican Church of the bishopric of Jerusalem is the actual commencement of the great and merciful work of Jehovah towards Zion ".