The Death of Jesus - The Easter Story in Virtual Reality - The Octagon Project

[Music] two thousand years ago if you were walking in this direction you would be approaching a hill called Golgotha the place of the skull this is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there are many chapels and altars here two of them recalled the most heinous event in the history of mankind the murder of the Son of God this is a chapel that remembers the nailing of Jesus to the cross according to st. Jerome the Emperor Hadrian had erected a statue of the Greek goddess Venus directly over the place where Jesus died because of this st. Helena the mother of the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine was able to locate the exact spot where the cross of Jesus stood this is that spot [Music] the Roman soldiers gambled for the only possessions that Jesus acquired during his lifetime his robe and his tunic there were two thieves who died on either side of the Savior one of those thieves asked Jesus to remember him when he went to his father in response Jesus told him that he would in fact be with him in paradise but on the place where this thieves cross would have stood is a mysterious fissure in the rock which extends all the way down to the core of this hill many people believe that this crack was caused by an earthquake which occurred when Jesus died upon feeling this quake a Roman centurion who was there at the time declared that Jesus must have been the son of God tradition tells us that the name of the Centurion was Longinus [Music] there were three women all of them named Mary who watched Jesus die from a distance after Jesus gave up his life he was taken down from the cross and to Jewish leaders who were among his secret followers brought aloe and myrrh to anoint his body because the tomb of Jesus was very close this anointing must have occurred in this area the marble slab that you see here is said to cover the original bedrock upon which the body of Jesus laid the building you are walking toward wasn't there during the time of Jesus instead it was a solid wall of stone in which there was a new tomb in 325 AD st. Elena carved away this entire Hill the original edicue love Jesus was demolished in 1009 ad but there is something that wasn't destroyed the actual limestone table on which the body of Jesus laid that means that when pilgrims come here to pray they are doing so only a few centimetres about the spot where Jesus's body rested and there is a hinged icon behind which one can actually see the stones that encircled the original tomb of Jesus each one of them is a silent witness to the most important event in the history of the world the day that this miracle-working man from Galilee walked out of his own grave [Music]

Channel: The Octagon Project

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Id: MiDCQseA5LU

Length: 4min 22sec (262 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 14 2017