Gordon’s Calvary
There is a distinctive, rocky outcropping north of Jerusalem that, in 1842, Otto Thenius, a German preacher, proposed to be the actual place of Christ’s crucifixion. For Pastor Thenius, the outcropping looked exactly like a skull. He wasn’t alone in his thinking. In 1871, an American Presbyterian minister wrote a book, The True Site of Calvary. In it he supported the same view. However,Get More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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Thank you, this is not news to me, I have seen photos of the outcropping and it’s resemblence to a skull in the past and have always believed this to be the place of our Lord’s crucifiction
I had the privilege of visiting 3 times the Calvary rock, and I believe that Gordon’s Calvary is the real place where our Lord was crucified for us.
Rev. Fernand A. PetitClerc, pastor