Following Jesus in Jerusalem #25: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre 

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I am a Catholic priest, and when I visited the Holy Sepulchre a few years ago, I was able to celebrate Mass in the Edicule itself. It was perhaps the high point of my life, so thank you for bringing that experience back to mind today!

Another excellent presentation by Danny the Digger

Thank you for this whole series Danny. I greatly appreciate your balanced insight and vast knowledge. I hope peace will come to the Holy Land and send you many blessings.

This tour you are providing is nothing short of astonishing. Even though there are a lot of challenges that arise you are knowledgeable to continue with your well organized sequence of sites. It's riveting. Thank you. Your name, Danny the Digger, is well earned.

Hammen Hammen Hammen.... Gesù Cristo Santo Dio.

the best video about holy sepulchre, so much knowledge🤩

I watched several of your videos before visiting Jerusalem. They were they most infotmative I've seen. Good work.

Today is 17th April 2023. I am among a group of copts from Egypt. We could only see parts of the Church as it was terribly crowded. Thank you for your comprehensive video. God Bless u❤❤❤

Danny you are the best God bless you my friend

What a blessing must be going inside of the empty tump, because Jesus was risen 🙌🙌🙌‼️Great vídeo

SHALOM YESHUA THIS IS MICHAEL BRYCE I'M COMING TO GIVE WITH MY HEART ♥ 😢SAD 😔 MY EYES FULLY TEE'S OH GOD BRINGS HIM BACK TO ME FAST I CANT RECUPERATE MYSELF. AMEN

FANTASTIC VIDEO ! Thank you so so very much. Shalom

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Excellent video. I used to live in Israel and went to the Holy Sepulchre many times and sometimes with experts on the site. As you know, Golgotha is lump of =rock with a fault line in it: it couldn’t be used for stone - the area had been a quarry. I was once taken under the church where the shape of the rock clearly showed evidence of quarrying. The first Aedicule was cut to isolate the tomb of Jesus but his tomb, as you note, was part of a necropolis. That’s an important reason for it being outside the city wall. I’m glad you showed the Syrian tomb: how sad that the dispute has not been resolved, but at least it’s free of religious paraphernalia.

Danny. God bless you for filming Jesus’ tomb like this. Even though my wife and I have visited Israel and been to the tomb of Jesus, my 86 year old mother in law yearned for the opportunity to see it personally but can’t due to her age and health. So thank you Danny for a superb tour and explanation. Subscribed.

Thank you very much Mr Danny...🙏✝️🇮🇱🇬🇷🇨🇵

Fantastic video and information. I have subscribed and liked. Thank you sir for bringing this information and video to the world. God bless you.

Wow!!! Thank you so very much Danny for this precious video! God bless you always! ❤👍🙏

Gosh, I really have gotten used to waking up to a new Danny video every morning!

Best video EVER!!!!! Thank you Danny!!!

Shalom Danny! Congratulations on a well-done vlog series!!! You have challenged Christian traditions and encouraged Bible reading and study as you explain archaeology at each site. I look forward to your future videos anywhere you are at Biblical sites. I love Yisrael!

I have had dreams of visiting Israel and being in Jerusalem and obsessing over seeing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the sites of Jesus crucifixion and burial site. If I remember correctly that where this stands presently, this area was outside the city in Jesus time.

new subscriber ty very good tour

God Bless You Danny

Much appreciated Danny, Thank you. Greetings from Australia, God bless brother.

👏👏👏awesome Shalom brother God BLESS❤🙌🙌👆

Hi Danny, You make archaeology interesting, educational and fun! ! Thanks so much! ! !

Terrific

Superb presentation Danny. Kudos.

That was awesome. Thank you for taking us on this historical and religious journey

I have enjoyed your series on Jesus so much! Thank you and God bless you!

God bless you my brother.

Wish I was there!...thank you!

Great video. I visited Jerusalem three weeks after this video.

Great explanation of the church and probable location of Jesus tomb. And the new mic worked great!

Amazing video! Great Job Danny!

Danny ,the digger Herman....👍👍

Wonderful work Danny! God bless you! Jesus be with you!

Thank you so much, fantastic video!

i really like all your videos, i want to go in biblical places too 🙏🏻

Hello, We are enjoying your vlog series.. Yes, tourist are on their way back.. We are coming on a tour next week..

Thank you so much Danny for clarifying many of my questions

Wow, it is so surreal to see this site so empty! What a fantastic time to be there again now. Thanks for another great video and all that detailed info., Danny. Yes, my guide took us to the burial caves where you were but to be able to video the Edicule without having those crazy monks screaming at you was unbelievable!

Good Day Danny, When I hear you say that the different denominations are arguing about who owns the building and don't maintain it all as one is really quite sad. No one owns the building except Jesus. Quarreling like this is why I have no affiliation with organized religion. I can speak to Him on my own, and I do. Focus on Jesus Christ not who owns what. Have a Blessed and Beautiful Day. Dio Ti Benedica 🙏✌

I can’t wait until the Garden Tomb video- exciting stuff!

Shalom Danny!

This is the best vlog yet! When my wife and I visited the church, it was jammed with good people wanting to see and worship. Our able guide, Dr. Eric Huntsman (you may know him), wasn’t able to show us the details you did because of the press of people. Your fascinating information about Helena and the Bishop of Jerusalem was extremely useful as I’ve tried to understand the process of locating holy sites. Many thanks. A donation will be made soon. Keep well Brother Herman. You’re making a fine contribution to the knowledge of many seeking people around the world who want to know and follow the Savior.

Great video Danny. I could spend weeks just there on that building. Amazing stuff.

Wow! Thanks Danny!

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Thanks for these educational videos. What type of stone is the bedrock, is it limestone?

Thank you Danny! This video is very informative and awesome ❤!

This is brilliant, love this and the other presentations prior to this. A question: if Jesus' tomb was orginally underground, who dug down the surrounding rock to make the church level around the tomb? There would have been a lot of rock to dig through and surely someone said something about that? And where would they have placed the excavated rock? Could we use some type of isotype test to identify where the rocks that were dug up were placed?

Love your series Danny excellent job maybe you could put them into two parts, and spread out your content?

Thanks again Danny for a wonderful presentation on this subject. The garden tomb looks and feels like it is the correct spot, however the archaeological evidence you present here is very compelling given the fact that there are other tombs at this location. I do remember our guide talking about these other tombs at the church. Big believer in following the archaeological evidence. I believe God continues to release more evidence to us as we seek to know the truth.

Warm greetings from Australia 🦘 Danny, you are a STAR! I really hope I can meet you in the flesh and do one of your tours. What impresses me most about you is your respect for other people. You're not pushy with a camera. I hope you and your family are well, given the situation in Israel. God bless you and take care. I will bring some gifts for you from Australia 🦘

Thank you, great episode, hope to visit during my lifetime

Thank you Thank you god bless you🙏🙏🙏

Another great job! Thank you so much I llearned a ton!

Hello Mr Danny! I’ve very much enjoyed your video tours!! I may never get to Israel because of various reasons but your showing and sharing so many interesting sites. Also I’ve been doing Geneology since the early 90’s and found I’m directing descended from The King of Jerusalem ( Fulk of Anjou, V) he was my 25th GreatGrandfather up my Dads side and is apparently buried at this church. Is the grave marked? 🥰Darla D

Thank you ❤️

I always laugh about the ladder above the main entrance. Somewhere I read that’s it’s been up there since the 1800’s, all because of an argument between who approved some kind of repairs.

Hello from Arkansas USA 🇺🇸

Thank you! This has been a wonderful presentation of apologetical evidence.

Shalom my bro Danny

Very good presentation!

Thanks D.

Sir , love your videos , I think that the charge against Jesus as “ King of the Jews “was not mocking . The Jewish leaders said “ we have no king but Caesar “So Pilate needed a reason for putting Jesus to death because He committed no crime therefore Jesus died a political death.

Been there.

JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but only that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’” 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” it was written because the NARRATOR wrote the TRUTH But Pilate chose to write this because he knew it would upset the Sanhedrin Council it was not to humiliate Him Thank You for sharing this Incredible Series Shalom Brother Danny

You mentioned that the first room would be where the body could be cleaned. But, in the case of Jesus, it was late in the day when they took Him down from the cross. They didn't have time to properly prepare the body. That's why the women were coming on Sunday morning to prepare His body. The Shroud of Turin testifies to this that His body had not been cleaned up.

Danny I was told the place of the crucifixion was at a location which is right behind a bus station in Jerusalem. The rock there looked like a skull. Do you know where I am talking about? What do you think of that location?

Lovely ... Thanks for your beautiful explanation and the high quality camera ... i have a question please , is the red thing on the bed rock of golgotha is blood ? I heard that a scientist in the 20th century took a sample and found out it is blood .. is it really that this red thing had been tested ? And if so can i have a details about that ? Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊😊

it is called skull (Golgotha) because tradition says it happens to be the same spot where Adam was buried and Jesus the fulfillment of Adam bled on the same spot in the most strangest twist of god's providence and timing. The skull refers to the bones of Adam

Are your also going to make a video from Gordons Gethsema?

The Cross is erected 4 meters from sandstone in middle of hallway as you get in from front door,The Tomb is 50 meters from that spot,the Lord have told me September 2009 on pilgrimage with Benny Hinn.

This place is so beautiful and holy if this is truly jesus cruxifiction and burial spot. Did the protestans believe another spot where jesus was buried ?which is the graden of tomb?

Danny can you explain the reason of why the right side of the entrance/ doorway to the church was permanently blocked and only the left side is still open?

Shalom YeHshua!! Didn’t use the whole name that time. I love you as a brother sister, I am married to Justin. He is you on the inside. I love him a lot. I want to help him and please help my family accept him and love him too. I had a Baal spirit mess with my marriage and family a little. Lots of baals over in Israel. Just people named that. I don’t judge them. I bless them. I bless You and The highest Yah and One. I pray you will help me with love and longevity like my Italian heritage. Italy is so good at longevity. I have seen miracles I pray for bravery to testify. May I please have 3-5 children? I raise kids at the church. They are funny and very loud. I walked through mental illness, I walked through spiritual sexual abuse and ritual abuse, and I walked through common cold, I has sniffles. I have so much fun hanging out with you. My Hebrew name is Revka Meir. I have an ancestor named Jean Baptiste (john the Baptist) he kept his head and somehow hung out with pirates probably was a pirate. The crew saved America in a war, captain was burried at sea.

Sir we can do planchet on Jesus to know the truth.

Did you go to the small village on top of the church?

Danny I heard you say when you were speaking about the pool it went to the site where the market was and some corn was there and you said that it shouldn't have been there because there was no corn back but read in the bible that KING DAVID and his men ate corn while fleeing from Saul explain would you thanks

I have a question about this site. If Jesus was crucified with 2 other men, and buried just a few feet away, then this would be the garden tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. Would a crucifixion site occur on someone’s personal property?

It is a very nice church, but Jesus was laid to rest in the Garden Tomb. Just like Mt. Sinai is in Saudi Arabia; not in Egypt where they also have a giant building.

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That woman stared you down in the tomb lol

That isn't on Mount Moriah, and as such excluded from possibly being this place; 13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

There is a lot more evidence that this is the right place out there. It is only Catholic/ Byzantine traditions that tells us He was crucified on Friday; it could have been any day of the week because the day after "Preparation Day" is the celebration/Feast of "Unleavened bread" which is a high Sabbath.

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It's not about where he was but what he did and who he is that is important. Also the Romans tried to destroy all sighs of what was and make the place a Romans city. Also they didn't investigate lit they should have.

00:39 I didn't know they allowed scooters into the church?!

How do we know helena got it right? She coukd have been wrong.

The real question is: which one would you believe? The early Christians or the modern historians. The garden tomb just represents Protestanism: empty, modernist, no trace of history, no connection to Christianity.

2:49 You love these doubts. You know very well that in the history books it is often said that the Jews were exiled from Jerusalem as early as the 2nd century. However, it is known that not everyone. And so, never all Christians left this earth. You are in great error.

Your opinion is simply speculation my friend

Concerning The Church of the “Holy” Sepulchre … Three reasons why I do not think this is the right site. 1) Too close to the Dome of the Rock (1500 ft) or to maybe the true T.M. site (2000 ft). This is prime real estate for viewing of the Temple and would have been populated by many homes and businesses, especially during Jesus’ day. 2) While burial outside the city gate may be supported indirectly by Biblical and Rabbinic texts, undoubted, there were Rich people who owned bedrock property suitable for family burials, as is demonstrated by Manachin Bagin’s property as you showed in one of your videos. This is why Hebrews 13:11-12 emphasizes that Jesus was buried outside the city gates in accordance with the law, even though the tomb was owned by a rich man. Joseph followed the law even though many of his contemporaries found excuses to skirt the law, if they had suitable burial property inside the gates. So the point here is that the existence of Tombs in this area, does not prove it was a burial site outside the gate. 3) When the noble lady found this site because of the bishop, it was currently in a walled in area. The terrain to the North, where the current Jerusalem wall stands, is a natural defensive place for the placement of a wall in the upper city of Jerusalem. There is no natural defensive place between the Church and the Temple Mount for a defensive wall other, than the current Western wall which was about 300 ft west of what was probably the true western wall of the T.M. which was utterly destroyed. Building a defensive wall half way down a slope makes no sense. She probably went along with Bishop on this site, because some things seemed to fit, even though the major wall issue did not. People tend to ignore major bedrock facts when they think that the other facts line up. This has happened with the 600 by 600 ft Temple mount, as described by Josephus. Miraculously, Josephus make a 1000 ft mistake and shrinks the size of the T.M. while he at the same time makes the Eastern Retaining wall 600 ft high instead of 100 or 200 ft high, even though he is writing for important people who are themselves eyewitnesses. Yet every T.M. model ignores the bedrock information accept for Martin and Cornuki, but they also are wrong in that they ignore the pilgrim steps which come up from the pool of Siloam. Only a T.M. which is placed somewhere on the S.E corner of today’s T.M. accounts for the bedrock facts of the Bible and of Josephus and of “”Zechariah’s” tomb which would have been built facing the Holy of Holies without a doubt, as an intentional pointer (hence the Temple face design with a top designed to last the ages of ice and snow). Only by beginning at the solid bedrock facts, can we branch out to include the other less conclusive but matching facts. Do you think God is pleased with people venerating places the Holy sites? One of the Kings destroyed the bronze serpent for this very error. So God has no problem letting people venerate the false sites. When you go to the Garden Tomb, while there may be some abuses by some people, most of the visitors, do not bow down to the sites or kiss the sites. At most, some people will touch a site and contemplate what happened there, but they don’t bring items of clothing or objects hoping for a blessing or for some magical power to go with their item back to their home. The place of the skull is mentioned specifically by name in the Bible for a reason. No one would name a place by such a name unless it had to do with a terrain feature. God knew that this place would be protected to be discovered in our day and age, almost 2000 years later, just like the Mullah’s and priest bell and pottery with names of people in the Biblical narrative, some of whom seemed inconsequential for documentation, but God knew that these items would be preserved to be found in out life time when the world wants to deny that this land belongs to the Jews for their inheritance by God, and does not belong to any other nation or nationality. The place of the Garden Tomb and the Place of the Skull has all the evidence with matches the Biblical account. It is clearly outside what would have been the city gates. It is close proximity to each other. It is next to what would have been a main road leading out of city for the viewing of people as the criminals were punished. The plugs designed for the cross holes have been found by Ron Wyatt as well as the Ark of the Covenant with blood of Jesus, which came down a crack from the area of the cross due to the earthquake. God is not ready for the Ark to be made public so while God let Ron find and see these things, He did not let people retrieve the Ark (6 people died trying), and this Ark is being held for another day of public revelation. Ron was in error about Noah’s Ark’s location, but I find no reason to believe that he lied about what he saw concerning the Ark of the Covenant. The cross plugs can be verified today, I think, though I do not know if they were donated to the Israel Museum. The result of the testing of the blood, can be found at one of the Israel labs somewhere. Those involved are witness to the test results (only 23 chromosomes found, not 46 as is normal). Is the Garden Tomb absolutely the right Tomb? It fits the facts, so is the best candidate. The account says that both John and Mary STOOPED to look into the tomb, so the original opening was below normal head height, and that John saw the burial clothes from the light of the opening. The same tomb seems to have been used by other people since that time, and Joseph of Aramethea could have made the tomb for his entire family, and even used it afterwards, even though it had such a significant usage. He may not have thought that veneration was a proper way with which to deal with the tomb’s use, once it was time for him or his family to be buried in this place and later generations, may have used this space as well, with or without knowledge of its history. What ever the case, God kept the skull like nearby terrain from being destroyed or build upon, so we know that the tomb was close by this land feature, preserved by God for a later discovery by people less likely to destroy it by building a venerating “church” building over it. God appreciates our worship of Him, but not of anything else or any other object. So He continues to allow the false locations to be wrongly worshipped, until He comes and gets rid of this misplaced worship. The misleading shepherds of Ezekiel 34:2, which God prophesies against, existed during the time of Jesus in the form of the Pharisees and Sadducees and they exist today in many types of “Christian”, “Catholic”, “Orthodox”, “liberal” Protestant, and Rabbinic leadership circles today. But God is still at work in churches throughout the world and in individual people’s lives as they discover the real Jesus of the Bible. While many come to venerate, many others come to appreciate the land of Israel, the people of Israel, and the places of the Bible as they worship Jesus alone who is the “GOD WITH US” of all the Bible and the God voice of the true prophets and Scriptures. When Jesus comes, we will all be required to come to Jerusalem to worship Jesus in person once a year. Keep up the good work, Danny! Like I said before, all your comments are instructional and helpful and we sift through the various traditions and conclusions of millions of people who look for a piece of God they can see and touch, according to what they suppose is true. If I worship God in a church in America which I thought was 200 years old when it was only 100 years old, which was founded by someone different than what I was told, it should affect my worship of God. The Word of God is unchanged (though people have tried to mess with it by bad interpretations or by faulty translations), and we can rely on God’s Word to bring us back to the truth, when we read God’s Word honestly without adding in additional assumed information. Danny has been very low key about all this and I appreciate this. I’m sure that some guides can be influenced by what is popular and profitable, but I have not sensed this in his analysis as we appreciate the different traditions with their conflicting conclusions. In 2011, my family, mostly self guided ourselves with a rental van, but my wife and I were going to go with a tour group in 2020 which only provided for two days of self guided site seeing, but this of course was cancelled. I was going to use this time to meet with a surveyor company to see if Solomon’s tomb intersected with the Zechariah Tomb, as both structures seemed commissioned by the same person. If you read this Danny, could you tell me if this has been done, or could you do this to see if this is the case. Google Maps seems to make these two things intersect, but I cannot get an absolute result and a pinpointed spot. Thank You. You can text me at (309) 645-4171 or email me (with a text alert) at coaba2011@gmail.com). My name is Kermit Forseth.

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