The top of the hill is wholly made from rock, the foundation is approximately 25×50 meters (75×180′), and it sits on relatively soft dirt.
“Ellicott’s Commentary for the English Reader,” All the first three Gospels dwell on the fact of its not being, as so many graves were, a natural cavern, but cut, and, as St. Luke’s word implies. To some extent, smoothed and polished. Like almost all Eastern graves, it was an opening made in the vertical face of the rock. Neither of the two localities which have been identified with the sepulchre (see Note as above) presents this feature, and, so far as this is not an argument against the identity of either with the actual tombs, we must assume that the rock has been so cut and shaped in the course of centuries as to lose its original form.
There are two caves on this rock hill, and both are large enough to hold several individuals. The upper cave is rock-hewn, I believe; however, I couldn’t see any chisel marks. The upper cave has a huge boulder (approximately 2 meters in height). If you saw it personally, you’d definitely wonder how it got there (see pictures).
The second cave is filled with straw, and the straw has been there as long as I’ve prayed upon this mountain, over 20 years. Could this be the birthplace of Jesus? Is it possible that the place of birth and death of Jesus is on the same Holy Mountain?
Sepulcher of Jesus Christ?
Lower cave – birthplace of Jesus Christ?
You can see the upper cave and a glimpse of the lower cave (lower right).
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