Chapter 529: Holy Land
Between the first and second stations of the Way of the Cross, there is an inconspicuous arch.
It is said that at that time, yes. After being convicted, he put on a crown of thorns and was beaten by the soldiers. After the execution, Pilate covered his body with bruised subjects. The governor took to the arch and shouted to the crowd of onlookers below, "Look! this person".
Gao Zhanbo, who is more familiar with history, said that according to the general historical records, Pilate was just an arrogant and domineering person. The arrogance in the presence of Jesus.
However, Zhong Tao said that a note here describes the truth that few people have noticed, and that Pilate did not actually want to put him to death. Revive. It is also famous here all over the world and is used by many sects. One of the reasons why teachers have been arguing for a long time.
It is said that Pilate tried Jeres many times. Jesus had been trying to find a reason for his innocence. Later, Pilate also deliberately put Yah. Jesus was brought out with a murderer to demand the release of one of them, but the crowd was still willing to release the murderer, so that Pilate directly asked angrily, "Why, what evil has he done?" βγ
On this arch will be scarred yes. In fact, Jesus also wanted to win sympathy and seek forgiveness from the people. It can be said that Pilate was not a complete villain.
The greatest flaw of human beings is cowardice, and Pilate did not want to violate his conscience but did not dare to rebel against the masses. Yes. Jesus' choice to die to prove his innocence was naturally a holy and dazzling act. Pilate, on the other hand, is more like an ordinary person, who knows what good and evil are, but has to compromise in the struggle of fate. Later in the legend, Pilate endured a thousand years of torment and repented of his cowardice.
Although Su Man and most of the team had never heard of this legend and history, such a legend always sounded much more interesting than a dry statement.
From the second stop to the ninth station of the Passion Road, most of the churches along the way are very inconspicuous, but each church has a story, but these are not things that everyone wants to investigate, so they don't stop at all.
From the ninth station to the last few stops. To pass through an Ethiopian monastery. Ethiopia is probably the only old base in Africa. It is rumored that the lost Ark of the Covenant has been secretly hidden in a monastery in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is famous for its ancient rock-cut churches, and the monasteries in Jerusalem are as cold as the rock walls.
The last stops on the Way of the Cross are at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Also East. Correct. Teaching the four self-taught traditions. Will be one of them. From the outside. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is quite ordinary, and there is a humanoid sculpture on the steps to the right of the main entrance, which is the tenth station of the Stations of the Cross.
Since there was no way to drive in the next few stops, everyone got out of the car, Su Man put the car away, and everyone walked towards the church of the Holy Sepulchre.
After entering the door, you will find that the interior of the church actually looks quite grand. There is a strip of red marble on the ground, and the legend says yes. The stone on which Jesus' body was placed before he was buried. The red color of the marble is also said to be yes. Jesus' blood stained red.
But now it's not just one marble that's red, it's also a lot of dark red stains of blood. It should be a tourist who was eaten by zombies after the end of the world.
There are some zombies scattered around, and there are whole bags of clothes placed on top of the stones, probably people before the end of the world want to touch the light of the holy relics. But now the bags of these clothes are mottled and dried with blood, but the clothes inside are fine. Just thinking about it, these are all brought by tourists, and I don't know if it's new clothes, so Su Man didn't put them away, anyway, everyone in the team had one or two fewer clothes.
According to the Bible. Yay. It was a hill on which Jesus died, which is now completely contained in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Yay, who was ascetic all the way. It took a lot of effort for Jesus to climb all over the place, but now he only had to climb the stairs.
Because it was early in the last days. So the tourists are basically still in the front hall, and everyone continues to walk back. There are basically no people in the next few stations, and there are unusually few zombies. casually eliminated a few zombies that rushed over, and then stopped to look around. Here are two connected huts, the one on the right belongs to the sky. Bishop, the left room is east. Orthodox Church.
And the eleventh stop on the Way of the Cross is the hut on the right. The fresco of Jesus' crucifixion clearly expresses the situation.
The twelfth station is the one on the left, yes. The place where the cross of Jesus was erected is also Yahweh. The place where Jesus died, this place is second only to Yahweh from the introduction. The Tomb of Jesus. Base. The second holiest place of the overseer.
Exposed stone is displayed in glass cases on both sides. It was probably such a bare and lifeless hill in various places back then.
The thirteenth station of the Way of the Cross is not further back, but between the eleventh and twelfth stations, represented by a statue of the Virgin. Here is the dead who were taken down from the cross. Jesus and give it to the place of the Blessed Virgin.
Finally, the fourteenth stop of the Bitter Road is Yay. The tomb of Jesus.
Yes. The Tomb of Jesus is located in a spectacular domed hall, and the Holy Sepulchre itself has been built in a magnificent manner. After all, only here can be said to be everything base. The highest holy place common to the Catholics, even the Vatican is only the base. It's just a holy place for a branch of the Church.
Dangling from the doorway were some of the people who had been in charge of the place who had turned into zombies. But to everyone's surprise, it was clear that the Holy Sepulchre did not close the gate that was built later on the periphery, but none of those zombies shook to the edge of the Holy Sepulchre at most.
Su Man glanced back at everyone, and everyone also discovered this phenomenon. Everyone eliminated a few zombies at the door, but they left one alone, Su Man dragged the zombie around first, and everyone took the opportunity to enter the fence, and Su Man dragged the zombie into the fence.
At this time, everyone was surprised to find that the zombie actually turned a blind eye to Su Man, who was close at hand, and wandered outside the fence and turned around and swayed over.
This strange phenomenon further confirms the difference here.
After confirming the differences here, Su Man eliminated the zombie, and then looked in with everyone, and followed the sign in front of them, and everyone came to the entrance of the Holy Sepulchre. The Holy Sepulchre was originally just a cave and was later created by the Cross. The army built an inner chamber of pure marble as it is now. The marble on the tomb is said to have been reconstructed from the original site.
But this is only the upper floor, there is still a floor under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The group descended the stairs to the lower level of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also a church with ornate mosaics on the floor, said to have been from the 12th century.
It was unusually quiet here, but Xiao Sha in Su Man's pocket vaguely felt something different. From the time he just set off, Su Man secretly put Xiao Sha in his pocket, because he didn't have to look carefully in the city, Su Man let Xiao Sha feel it every time he went to a place, and the result was self-evident, there was nothing special here at all, and Xiao Sha didn't feel it until here.
"Master, it feels so familiar." Xiaosha whispered to Su Man.
"Do you want to keep going inside?" Su Man also asked in a low voice.
Xiao Sha responded softly, and then Su Man turned out the light tube and walked deeper. Everyone followed behind and moved in, except for the footsteps of everyone, there was no more movement, and it was unusually quiet.
When he went to the deepest point, Su Man illuminated the surroundings with light. This seems to be the coffin of the burial chamber, and the sign and the fence in front of it indicate that this is where tourists stop, but this is indeed the place where Xiaosha notices.
Su Man stretched the strap of the light tube, straddled it diagonally, and then jumped into the railing with one hand and walked towards the coffin.
After entering the inside, Su Man turned around, only to find that everyone seemed to be stopped outside after crossing the railing, and he felt even more strange in his heart.
Shining inside with a light tube, Su Man found that behind the sarcophagus was a wall full of incomprehensible characters, but the central piece of this wall was like a rectangular gap like a brick.
But it's obviously not brick, because there are bumps in the back, which seems to correspond to something.
"Xiaosha, do you think this rectangular block looks like anything?"
Xiao Sha hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, do you remember, this thing seems to be the last time the owner was in the underground of a very small room......"
When Xiaosha said this, Su Man also remembered. Underneath the chapel of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus, Turkey, Suman once found a book made of reddish gold. What is the connection?
Su Man hurriedly flipped through the gold book inlaid with some gems.
He looked at the gold book carefully and compared it with the size of the wall. It seems that the book is slightly smaller than the one on the wall, but it is unusually similar in comparison to the position of the bump stone on it.
Su Man wasn't sure if it was or not, so he aimed the gold book into the groove on the wall.
After the gold book was pressed in, nothing happened, thinking that energy stimulation was needed in the past, Su Man slightly injected a little bit of energy into the gold book.
But with the input of energy, a mouthful of pronunciation poured into my mind. When this awkward pronunciation was completely imprinted in his mind, Su Man read it out one by one according to the voice he had heard before.
As the syllables popped out of Su Man's mouth, the gold book began to change gradually, and the gold book became bigger and bigger, until it completely matched the gap in the groove, at this time, Su Man pressed his hand towards the gold book, and a light appeared on the wall at the moment of pressing.
Above the light is the image of a cold winter turning into a scorching heat in an instant, and all the glaciers melting into water gradually engulfing the land.
ββββββββ I Am the Changing Dividing Lineββββββββ (To be continued)