The Seven Wonders in Jerusalem
Length: Seven episodes of about 20 minutes
Gethsemane: the wonder of forgiveness
In the first episode, Wilkin visits the Israel Museum, where a large model of Old Jerusalem has been built. The most impressive part is the model of the Second Temple built by King Herod. At the Tower of David Citadel, Wilkin explains that God was the director of Golgotha and that He left nothing to chance. Wilkin then heads to the Garden of Gethsemané, where the most dramatic struggle in world history took place. The place where Jesus’ sweat fell like drops of blood on the earth. Here we look for the first miracle of the cross.
The house of the High Priest Annas: the wonder of salvation
In the second episode, Wilkin dwells on a spectacular event, strangely not depicted in any Jesus film, but which we will not overlook. We then descend three metres below the street surface – and two thousand years in time – to search for remains of the palace of high priest Annas at the Wohl Museum of Archaeology to discover what the second miracle of the cross means to us.
The palace of High Priest Caiaphas: the wonder of cleansing
In the third episode, Wilkin travels to the location where historians are almost certain that the palace of high priest Caiaphas stood. Wilkin visits the Caiaphas’ Steps, which we are sure Jesus walked there, the Church of St Peter and the Dungeon Caves, It is the place where Jesus was interrogated for the second time, where he was charged again and where he was mistreated again to the point of blood, and where we pause to consider what the third miracle of the cross means for us.
The courtyard of the judicial building: the wonder of healing
In the fourth episode, Wilkin makes a remarkable discovery in a Fans nunnery in downtown Jerusalem, where part of the courtyard of the Antonia Castle was uncovered years ago. It is probably where Pilate interrogated Jesus and where he had Him scourged. From there, we will visit the bathwater of Bethesda, to discover what the fourth miracle of the cross means for us.
In the Preatorium: the wonder of deliverance
In this episode, Wilkin goes back one more time to the French nunnery where one particular detail had almost escaped him. And we visit the Chapel of the Scourging where we try to get as close as possible to the place where Jesus was crowned with a crown of thorns by Roman soldiers 2,000 years ago. Between the walls of this chapel built by the Crusaders, we will discover what the fifth miracle of the cross means to us.
Golgotha: the wonder of reconciliation
In the sixth episode, Wilkin walks the Via Dolorosa and visits Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified, and Herodian Street in Jerusalem’s Archaeological Park, where a very interesting fragment with Hebrew inscription of the Second Temple was found years ago. It is the place where Jesus bled for us for the sixth time. In this episode, we reflect on why Jesus was crucified in the first place. Do we have a good answer to that?
Golgotha: the wonder of being born again
In the latest episode, Wilkin visits the Tomb Garden in Jerusalem and the Paternost Church on the Mount of Olives, where the ‘Our Father’ is inscribed in more than 160 languages. In this special place, we discover who we now are in Christ through the miracle of the cross. We end the series on the banks of the Jordan to understand once and for all the miracle of how God looks at us in Christ.