Traditional community life in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, British Palestine. Slate reads “It was into this half-Jew, half-Roman world, that Jesus was born in Bethlehem”. Aerial view of Bethlehem and holy sites. A Palestinian woman wraps her infant in a swaddle. Woman ties her swaddled infant with string. Woman carries her swaddled baby in a traditional baby carrier sling bag. A caravan travels in the desert. Desert in Palestine. Men riding donkeys to Bethlehem.
A boy watches his mother make bread in Palestine. Palestinian boy holds a clay jar while woman makes bread. Mother scoops a handful of flour, adds flour to clay bowl. Woman’s hands kneading flour into dough. Woman breaks dough into pieces. The boy pours water from the clay jar into the mixing bowl while the mother kneads bread. Slate reads: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened. St. Matthew Ch 13 v.33”. Boy watches mother brushing off flour from her hands.
Children attend a Jewish school in Bethlehem, Palestine. A male teacher supervises Jewish boys studying the Torah. Jewish boys wearing Kippah (skull cap) and Payot (side locks) reading the Torah. Slide reads “Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. St. Luke.Ch.2.v.41”. Crowded streets in Jerusalem during the week of the Jewish Passover. A crowded street leading to the Temple Mount. People gathered outside the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
Carpenter building a plow in Palestine. Slide reads “Then he went down along with them to Nazareth and did as they told him. St.Luke.Ch.3.v.51”. A carpenter working on wood. An old farmer holding prayer beads. A man saws wood to build a plow. Carpenter’s foot holds the wood in place while the wood is being sawed. Carpenter hammers a plow handle. Carpenter hammers a nail into plow handle. Palestinian farmer watches the wood worker as he waits for the carpenter to finish making the plow.
Slide reads “And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.St.Mark.Ch.1.v.8.”. View of the Jordan River in Palestine. Slide reads “Then the Spirit drove him immediately into the desert, ad in the desert he remained for forty days while Satan tempted him. St. Mark Ch.1. vv.12-13.”. View of the Judaean Desert, where Bible says Jesus Christ spent 40 days fasting. View of the Judaean Mountains, also known as the Hebron Mountains. View of the Mount of Temptation in the Judaean Desert.
Slide reads “Then Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Gallilee. St.Luke.Ch.4.v.14.”. View of a lake located on the site of what believed is to be Capernaum, a fishing village from the biblical and Roman era in Galilee, Palestine. Aerial view of the desert, olive groves and Lake Tiberias in Galilee. View of a tree in front of Lake Tiberias, also known as the Sea of Galilee. Slide reads “Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea. St.Mark.Ch.1.v.16.”. A man casts a net in the Sea of Galilee. Fishermen holding a drag net to catch fish near the shore. Fishermen in boat let down a sea net in deep water. Fishermen on boat pulling sea net. Fishermen hauling fishing net from deep water in the shore. Fishermen with net on a small boat. Palestinian fishermen fixing nets under a tree.
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