“Stunning Discovery in Golan Heights: Could This Ancient Temple Be the Site of a Jesus Miracle?”
Nature and Parks AuthorityThe discovery of this temple comes on the heels of another impressive find — the church where it is believed Jesus told Peter to spread the word of Christianity.
Led by professor Adi Erlich and her team of archaeologists, the dig yielded intriguing stones that were carved with crosses as well as tile flooring with a cross on it. Erlich believes that these stones were laid by religious pilgrims around 400 A.D., generations after the site was used as a temple, in order to memorialize the miracle Jesus performed there.
According to the Bible, Jesus was on his way to the home of a man who needed him to heal his ailing daughter when the bleeding woman approached him. When the woman touched Jesus’ clothing, “immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.”
Israel Nature and Parks AuthorityArchaeologists found an altar with a Greek inscription from the third century B.C. This clearly identified the site as a place of Pan worship before the arrival of Christianity.
But whether this site really is the place of this alleged miracle remains unknown. What is clear, however, is that uncovering this historic site was a miraculous twist of fate itself.
According to The Times of Israel, Erlich’s team also believes that this is the oldest church in Israel and was commemorated in order to memorialize Jesus revealing himself as the Messiah to his disciple Peter.
The site is believed to have been built atop a Roman-era shrine to the Greek god Pan from the third century. Erlich adds that Christian builders from the fourth and fifth centuries likely adapted the Roman pagan temple into one that would serve the relatively new faith of Jesus.
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