While thousands of years have passed since Jesus Christ lived on the earth as a mortal man, many of the cities and sites where He walked, taught, and performed miracles are still inhabited and well-documented as holy and sacred ground. Every year, millions of tourists and religious pilgrims travel to these places to worship and experience some of the same sights, cultures, and environments the Savior may have observed as well. But for those of us who can’t physically travel to the Holy Land and wonder where the Savior may have walked, these 13 beautiful photos and accompanying scriptures may help bring the stories of the Savior’s mortal ministry to life.
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17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them.
2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen.
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Editor’s note: Scholars have long debated the authenticity of the Garden Tomb site. In the March/April edition of LDS Living magazine, Latter-day Saint scholar Gaye Strathern said, “The Garden Tomb is an Iron Age tomb that predates the time of Jesus by several centuries. Sometimes tombs were reused, but Matthew’s Gospel says that Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus’s body from Pilate, ‘wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock.’ (Matthew 27:57–60; see also John 19:38–42). Mark and Luke do not mention that it was a new tomb. (see Mark 15:43–46; Luke 23:51–53)”
However, Strathern also said, “Although the Garden Tomb is probably not the actual tomb of Jesus, it is for me a spiritual oasis in both Jerusalem and in my mind and heart.”
