Watch and Pray
House of Caiphas
Our location is the house of Caiphas, the High Priest during Jesus’ time. From where I’m sitting, I’m looking east to the Mount of Olives. To my left is the Temple Mount - I can see the Dome of the Rock through the Southern Wall.
We are sitting in the courtyard. I expected the courtyard to be large, but in fact it is realitively small. Our group of 150 are tight in the area. I’m guessing that it’s maybe 45 by 30 feet. This is where Peter denied Christ 3 times.
When the cock crowed, Luke tells us that Jesus “turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, ‘Before a cock crows today, you will deny Me three times.’” (Luke 22:61). Peter had been asleep in the garden. He had not watched and prayed.
How about you…are you keeping a watch through prayer? or are you asleep?
This looks great. It seems like I was right there!! Keep telling the story. We want to hear about Petra.
May 24th, 2005 at 12:23 pmI really loved the commentary with the pictures–including a rooster!! My prayer life has been lousy lately. I don’t know what happened. This is an encouragement to pray. Thanks
May 24th, 2005 at 10:57 pmplease tell me more details about the sculpture on this page. Thanks
January 23rd, 2006 at 1:06 pmIt is a bronze sculpture depicting Peter’s denial of Christ
July 20th, 2006 at 10:05 pm