A perfectly ordinary Anglican church but hymn numbers in Arabic script.

A pigeon incubating eggs in a nest on top of a terrace light by the entrance to St George’s .

The familiar green English Hymnal and a splendid organ not dissimilar in decoration to St Dunstans, though larger.

A sermon about healing with reference to last night’s deaths in Gaza from an 82 year old priest with a renewed heart and a kindly face.

Lemon barley after the service from an urn.

A cathedral briskness about the service. But the same God as this morning by the Western wall.

This afternoon after lunch and conversation we drove through West Jerusalem – more modern Jewish side – to the Israel museum. The model of Jerusalem in Jesus’ time (second temple built by Herod the great – slaughter of the innocents, father of Herod Antipas – crucifixion), helped us situate the second temple in relation to the early city of David and pool of Siloam, the San Antonio fortress where we had seen the church of the flagellation yesterday, and the pools of Bethesda supplying the needs of the temple. Also the palace of Herod Antipas and the walls built around a bigger area by Herod Agrippa. All as it was the day before the Romans destroyed the second temple.

We also saw an exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Shrine of the Book, but this was similar to the touring exhibition I had seen before. The book shop yielded little in the way of explanation of the Jewish faith – need more research on this.