ISRAEL PHOTOS III -- A COLLECTION OF PHOTOS FROM ISRAELWITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENES AND SITES PERTINENT TO THE STUDY OF CHRISTIANITY |
Jesus reiterated proper use of wine-skins. The use of leather water bottles was persistent until the widespread use of sheet metal and plastic, although it is rare today. New wine that was not yet fermented was stored in new skins for as the wine fermented the carbon dioxide from the yeast caused the skins to swell like balloons. Old wine-skins were already stretched out and inelastic. They might have been used for water but not wine. Later Islam prohibited alcohol consumption, thus one does not find many photos of wineskins in Israel and nearby areas as these were in use before the camera was invented.
Skin being used as a butter
churn
Water-skins and water barrel.
Water carriers
Parable
of the Mustard Seed
A Mustard Field
Along Highway 87-North Shore of Galilee
Mustard
Seeds in the Palm of a Hand
A
Branching Mustard Plant Near the Jordan River/Bethsaida
Mustard
Field March 1999
Mustard Flowers
Upper Most Seats of the Synagogue
The Fig Tree
Mt of Olives Fig Tree April
12-13, 2005
Fig
and Pomegranate trees below Siloam in Jerusalem
Israel
Photos II fig tree page
Sycomore Fig Tree
The Good Shepherd
The Parable of the Sheep and
the Goats
Goat
Herder
Camels
Ritual Cleansing
Shechem
The Olive
Harvest of Samaria
Mt. Ebal
Olive Tree
Pearl of Great Price
A First Century Synagogue at Gamala
View
from the Vulture Overlook
Overview
of Gamala
Modern
Galilee Fishing Boats
Kursi
Caves and/or
Tombs
Steep Slope near the Lake
Hippos
Feeding the 5,000
On the Mountain
Walking on Water
Ramot-Zelon area
Alternate location
Mt. Hermon
The Pool(s) of Bethesda in Jerusalem
Healing
Pools
Southern
Pool
Crusader
Chapel and St. Ann Church
The Pool of Siloam in
Jerusalem
Gihon Spring
Hezekiah's Tunnel
Overlook of Siloam
Tower of Siloam
A Watch Tower in a Vineyard/Olive
Grove
Grape Vines at
Beth Horan
Towers
Mt.
Precipice
South Face
Summit
Over the edge
Measuring Line
View of Nazareth from
near Megiddo
Nazareth
The
Basilica of the Annunciation
Capernaum
Healing a Paralytic in
Capernaum
Bethsaida
Waterskins and
Wineskins
The Fish and the Coin
Barbel
A Denarius
Casting out a demon
The Road to Jericho
Old Roman Road
Wilderness Above
Jericho
Old Jericho
Western Wall
Gethsemane and the Cave
of Gethsemane
Church of the Holy
Sepulcher
Rolling Stone Tombs - Jerusalem
Other Rolling Stone Tombs
Tiberias
Solar Power in Israel
Salt of the earth
Chorazin