Mark.11-Mark.16

From 20 BC Herod the Great rebuilt the second Temple on a vastly enlarged platform on Mount Moriah. "It has taken forty-six years to build t…

A bitter-sweet tree resin used in anointing oil and to prepare the dead for burial — its double role foreshadowed Jesus's death.

The terraced hillside grapevine plot was Israel's greatest agricultural investment — and God's most persistent metaphor for his people.