On Saturday morning, I went up to the Mount of Olives. I have several pictures and writings from visits here before. Here and here.
I wanted to go to the town of Bethany to see Lazarus’s tomb, a location of a miracle Jesus did, one of many of bringing people back from the dead.
On top of the Mount of Olives is an Arab district of the city and the dividing wall runs along the top of here. Sadly after much searching, and I tried to ask a few people who all seem to give me different ideas, I was not able to find it, and I gave up and went home. It seems from a taxi driver you have to go through the dividing wall, walking through there is not an option. I decided to logistics of this seem awkward as seems that the taxi driver has to hang around outside to take you back, or get several taxis one to the dividing wall and another one on the other side in East Jerusalem.
I was originally hoping to meet my Arab believer friend (he is an ex-Muslim) who lives up here, but was not able to get hold of him. Instead I decided I would pay a visit to the Garden of Gethsemane at the bottom of the Mount of Olives, but this was closed on Saturday afternoon, so headed off home. This reminded me I have some pictures of when I visited this place before late last year I thought I would share these from a previous visit.
The entrance in the side. This box on the left was from a Arab trader selling camera film, memory cards and batteries. The garden is free to visit and is always busy with tour groups from all over the world.
Where Jesus sweated and spent time in prayer. These olive trees are apparently 900 years old!
This place is mentioned by Matthew and Mark, after Peter denied Jesus and the cockerel crowed, the last supper, and before Judas pointed out Jesus to the guards that arrested him.
Matthew 26 : 36 and Mark 14 : 32 specifically mention this place. I did have some pictures of the insides of the church but not sure where I put them. The outside of the church with its bright coloured muriels above the pillars as well as the beautiful gardens are really striking. This is a must see place in Jerusalem.
Brit In Jerusalem 
The authentic and historical Messiah that was in Gethsemane was named Ribi Yehoshua.
A logical analysis (found in the above Netzarim-website (including the scientific premises the analysis is based on) (it is the website of the only legitimate Netzarim-group)) (including the logical implications of the research by Ben-Gurion Univ. Prof. of Linguistics Elisha Qimron of Dead Sea Scroll 4Q MMT) of all extant source documents of “the gospel of Matthew” (which is a redaction of Netzarim Hebrew Matityahu (which was perfectly in harmony with Torah) and anti-Torah) and archeology proves that the historical Ribi Yehosuha ha-Mashiakh (the Messiah) (ben Yoseiph) from Nazareth and his talmidim (apprentice-students), called the Netzarim, taught and lived Torah all of their lives; and that Netzarim and Christianity were always antithetical.
It is important to distinguish between the historical first century Ribi Yehoshua ha-Mashiakh (the Messiah) [Netzarim have convincing reasons he was the Mashiakh ben Yoseiph] from Nazareth (His teachings were pro-Torah and were later redacted by Hellenists; and the redaction is now found in the “gospel of Matthew”, which is anti-Torah) and the antithesis the Jezus of the “gospels”. The name of Ribi Yehoshua was redacted into the antithesis name Jezus by Hellenists. The website http://www.netzarim.co.il [History Museum (left menu)] proves that the ending of the name Jezus, derives not from a pure transliteration of Yehoshua, but it is synthesized with the name of Z*us.
Anders Branderud
Hello Anders,
thanks for the comment, in my job, in church, in bible study in and around Israel, I alternate between the names Jesus and Yeshua. I understand the former mostly commonly used in Western society has some Greek roots. However I don’t want to force people into either as the last thing I want to do is to cause divisions between fellow believers, as there is a enough of this already.
My name Jonathan, is commonly written as Yonatan in Israel as I have a Hebrew name, think this is written as יונתן I guess corruption and variations are common, especially as I see street signs in Jerusalem with their (English) names spelt different on opposite sides.
anyway, feel free to read and comment anything here you like.
blessings
Jonathan Hayward
PS, would Ben Yospeh shouldn’t be a term used, as Yoseph was Yeshua’s earthly adoptive father and not biological. Or, I wonder if orphans or children with re-married mothers use Ben- for a new father?