Temple Mount

1. Clearing the temple

   Jesus drove out those buying and selling in the temple and overturned the money changers’ tables, saying it was to be a house of prayer. The blind and the lame came to him there, and he healed them.

   Matthew 21:12–16Final Week · Stop 4

2. Zacharias in the temple

   While the priest Zacharias burned incense in the temple, the angel Gabriel told him that his wife Elizabeth would bear a son, to be named John. Because he did not believe, he was unable to speak. Afterward Elizabeth conceived and hid herself for five months.

   Luke 1:5–25John the Baptist · Stop 1

3. Presented at the temple

   Mary and Joseph brought the child to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. In the temple Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, and the prophetess Anna gave thanks and spoke about him.

   Luke 2:22–38Birth of Jesus · Stop 3

4. The boy Jesus in the temple

   When Jesus was twelve, he stayed behind in Jerusalem after the Passover. After three days his parents found him in the temple among the teachers, listening to them and asking questions.

   Luke 2:41–52Birth of Jesus · Stop 5

5. Teaching in the temple

   In his final days in Jerusalem Jesus taught in the temple every day, and at night he went out to stay on the Mount of Olives. People came early in the morning to hear him.

   Luke 21:37–38Final Week · Stop 4

6. A lame man healed at the temple

   At the hour of prayer a man lame from birth asked Peter and John for gifts at the temple door called Beautiful. Peter told him in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to walk, and he went into the temple walking, leaping and praising God. In Solomon’s porch Peter spoke to the amazed crowd.

   Acts names the temple door called Beautiful and the porch called Solomon’s; the marker shows the temple platform.

   Acts 3:1–26Jerusalem in Acts · Stop 4

7. Signs and wonders in Solomon’s porch

   The apostles did many signs and wonders, and they were all together in Solomon’s porch. People carried the sick into the streets so that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them, and crowds came from the cities around Jerusalem with the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

   Acts names Solomon’s porch, which John 10:23 places in the temple; the sick were laid in the streets. The marker shows the temple platform.

   Acts 5:12–16Jerusalem in Acts · Stop 7

8. Paul is seized in the temple

   Near the end of the seven days, Jews from Asia saw Paul in the temple and stirred up the crowd, claiming he had brought Greeks into it, since they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city. The crowd dragged Paul out to kill him, but the commanding officer came with soldiers and arrested him.

   Paul was seized in the temple and dragged out of it; the commanding officer arrested him outside and ordered him taken to the barracks (Acts 21:30–34). Trophimus is mentioned only as someone seen with Paul in the city.

   Acts 21:27–36Arrest and Trials · Stop 1

• The Birth and Childhood of Jesusstops 3 and 5
• John the Baptiststop 1
• The Final Week in Jerusalemstop 4
• Women in the Gospels and Actsstop 3
• Jerusalem in Actsstops 4 and 7
• Peter and the Early Churchstops 2 and 4

• Jerusalem0 km
• Pool of Bethesda0 km
• Gethsemane0 km
• Golgotha1 km
• Pool of Siloam1 km
• Mount of Olives1 km

The temple itself was destroyed in AD 70. The marker shows the platform on which it stood.

Coordinates

31.7778° N, 35.2356° E

Coordinate sources

Wikidata Q193163 (opens in a new tab)