Over two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross at a place called Golgotha ( translating to: the place of the scull ) just outside the then, city gates of Jerusalem.

The church of the Holy Sepulcher was built on that same site – or as near as-, and today, the church is located within the old city of Jerusalem.

Execution by crucification is a slow, agonising punishment that is designed to be witnessed by many and to deter any thoughts of rebellion or uprising.

Jesus did proclaim himself the be the Son of God, but never proclaimed himself to be the King of the Jews, even though he was Jewish.

The Romans were an occupying force (Occupying Settlers) and were always fearful of dissenting groups planning their downfall. The Jewish population feared Jesus – the so-called Masiah – who proclaimed himself to be the son of God.

Jesus was a humble son of a carpenter, and a preacher spreading his ordained message of his heavenly Father and the promise of a life in paradise after death, provided you had faith and believed in the power of the Son of God. He had performed miracles that had been witnessed and confirmed.

Chief priests and elders were angry and jealous of the following that Jesus was attracting and feared his power.They planned his downfall.

Jesus was charged with blasphemy and treason against the Roman Empire.

No evidence was found against Jesus, but fearing an uprising, he was found guilty and sentenced to death.

Jesus’s was crucified and mockingly called

‘King of the Jews’

The Romans placed a wooden plaque above his head with those words on.

It was a wicked thing to do, and the people laughed and mocked.

To see the suffering that is taking place today in Palestine is drawing on biblical lines.

The agonising suffering that is happening every day, witnessed by people from all around the world – often in real time – is staggering !!!

The Holy Land is weeping.

Most of the perpetrators of the violence are ‘Occupier Settlers’ or outsiders who have taken illegal possession of the land and are dominating the native Palestinian population .

The suffering witnessed on the predominantly civilian population in Westbank and Gaza has, in many cases, been the equivalent to being crucified.

Remember: some children had limbs amputated without anaesthetic !!!

Jesus’s cried out before his last breath,

” Father, forgive them for they know not what they do “

Today, it is very difficult to make that statement.

These waring powers know exactly what they do.

#StCarlosAcutis