Protestant Tour

Church of the Nativity - The birth place of Jesus

In the Old Testament, Bethlehem is first mentioned in the account of the death of Rachel. On her way from Bethel to the south, she died giving birth to her second son Benjamin and "was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem" (Genesis 35,19).

Centuries later, the widowed Ruth returned from Moab with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to her home town of Bethlehem. She was gleaning in a field belonging to Boaz when he encountered her. He then married her and she bore his son Obed, "the father of Jesse, the father of David" (Ruth 4,17).

It later appears again as the birthplace of Jesus Christ in the New Testament gospels: "Jesus, of the lineage of David, was born in Bethlehem, to which his parents had traveled from their home in Nazareth for a census in the reign of the Emperor Augustus" (Luke 2,1-7).

Milk Grotto 

This cave-chapel is the site where the Holy Family hid before their flight into Egypt, after Herod ordered the murder of all infant boys.

Shepherd's Field (Beit Sahour)

Wondering where those shepherds watched their flocks by night? The fields around the village of Beit Sahour are widely recognized by Christian believers as the site of the Shepherd's Field in which the birth of Jesus was announced by the angels.

Church of the Annunciation

The name of Nazareth first appears in the New Testament in the account of the Annunciation (Luke 1,26-33), and Jesus is said to have lived here until after his baptism by John (Luke 3,21).

The little houses of the village were built on top of tombs of the 2nd millennium and underground chambers hewn from the local tufa that had been used in the first half of the 1st millennium BC as store-rooms.

Cana (Kafr Kanna)

Cana is the place where Jesus performed his first miracle: the changing of water into wine.

Mount Tabour

Mount Tabor is the place of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, where Jesus began to radiate light and conversed with Moses and Elijah.

Magiddo

Megiddo, or Armageddon, will be the site of the Final Battle. This will be the final battle of many fought here. Excavation has uncovered about 26 layers of settlements dating back to the Chalcolithic period.

Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee is the places where Jesus performed miracles according to the New Testament, such as his walking on water, calming the storm and feeding the multitude. There will be a boat ride..

Tabgha

Tabgha, on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, is the site where Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish (Matthew 14:13-21). The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes was built here in the fifth century.

Mount of Beatitudes

Jesus have given the Sermon on the Mount here, on a low hill near Tabgha. The octagonal-shaped Church of the Beatitudes (to symbolize the eight beatitudes as described in Matthew 5:3-11) was built by the Franciscan Sisters in 1938 on the hilltop.

Bethsaida

Birthplace of the apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip, Bethsaida is mentioned in Christian Scriptures as a place where Jesus performed several miracles. Located just north of the Sea of Galilee, Bethsaida is an active archeological site first excavated in 1987

Mount of Temptation

In Matthew 4:8 we read how Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and then went into the wilderness where he fasted and meditated for 40 days and 40 nights on the Mt. of Temptation. While here the devil tried to tempt Jesus three times to forsake God.

Jordan River (Baptism)

Jordan River (Kaser Al-Yehud) is that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist

Dead Sea

At the lowest place on earth, dead Sea waters contain a high concentration of salts and minerals that are beneficial for your skin and health in general, whereas Dead Sea black mud is well-known for its healing properties for physical ailments. But that’s not all!

Mount of Olive

Jesus is said to have spent time on the mount, teaching and prophesying to his disciples (Matthew 24–25), including the Olivet discourse, returning after each day to rest (Luke 21:37, and John 8:1 in the additional section of John's Gospel known as the Pericope Adulterae), and also coming there on the night of his arrest.

Way of The Cross (Via Dalorosa)

Via Dolorosa (Latin for “Sorrowful Way” or “Way of Suffering”) is a route through the Old City of Jerusalem that is believed to be the path Jesus walked to his crucifixion.

Golgotha / Garden Tomb

The Garden Tomb is a rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem, which was unearthed in 1867 and is considered by some Protestants to be the site of the burial and resurrection of Jesus.

Golgotha is usually said to be connected to the traditional site of Christ's Crucifixion, now in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem.

Temple Mount (Western-Wall)

The Wailing Wall or Western Wall, known in Islam as the Buraq Wall, is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a relatively small segment of a far longer ancient retaining wall, Known also in its entirety as. the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism