1. Introduction
 

• How to Use this Book

• How This All Came to Be

• Why do we call this The Octagon Project?

• What is The Merged Gospels?

• How do we know that a holy site is authentic?

• Introduction to Israel and Jerusalem

 
2. The Bethlehem Area
 

• The Nativity Church Nave (live tour)

• The Nativity Grotto (live tour)

• The Church of Saint Catherine (live tour)

• Jerome’s Grotto (live tour)

• The Infant Bath of Jesus

• The Chapel of the Holy Innocents (live tour)

• The Milk Grotto (live tour site)

• The Orthodox Shepherds’ Field (live tour)

• The Shepherds’ Field - Franciscan

• The Shepherds’ Field - YMCA

• The Kathisma

• The Monastery of Theodosius

3. The Nazareth Area
 

• Introduction to Nazareth (live tour)

• The Church of Saint Gabriel (live tour)

• Mary’s Well (live tour)

• The Church of the Annunciation (live tour)

• The Nazareth Ruins (live tour)

• The Church of Saint Joseph

• The International Mary of Nazareth Center

• The Sisters of Nazareth Convent

• The Synagogue Church (live tour)

• The Maronite Cliff

• The Holy Caves of Nazareth

• The Franciscan Cana Wedding Chapel (live tour)

• The Greek Orthodox Church of Cana

• The Church of the Apostle Nathanael (built over his home)

• Mount Precipice

4. The Galilean North Shore
 

• Introduction to Galilee (live tour)e

• The Church of the Multiplication (live tour)

• The Church of Peter’s Primacy (live tour)

• The Mount of Beatitudes - the Actual Site (live tour)

• The Church of the Beatitudes

• The Church of the 12 Apostles

• Introduction to Capernaum (live tour)

• The Capernaum Synagogue (live tour)

• The Home of Simon Peter (live tour)

• The Modern Church at Capernaum (live tour)

• The Capernaum Lakeside (live tour)

• Chorazin

• The Sea of Galilee (live tour)

• The Leper’s Bath

5. The Galilean West Shore
 

• Ancient Tiberias (live tour)

• The Gennesaret Valley/Ancient Boat (live tour)

• Magdala (live tour)

6. Decapolis and the Golan Heights
 

• Caesarea Philippi

• Bethsaida

• Kursi (the Miracle of the Swine)

• Tel Hadar (The Feeding of the 4000)

7. Samaria
 

• The Cave of the Ten Lepers (live tour)

• The Church of John the Baptist at Sebastia

• The Tomb of John the Baptist (live tour)

• Jacob’s Well (live tour)

• Tel Balata (New Testament Sychar) (live tour)

• Mount Gerazim (where Samaritans worship)

• Tel Salim (where John baptized)

8. The Jezreel Valley
 

• The Catholic Church of the Transfiguration

• The Greek Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration

• Nain (where Jesus Raised a Widow’s Son)

9. The Jordan Valley
 

• Wadi Kharrar Baptism Site (Country of Jordan)

• Elijah’s Hill/John the Baptist’s Cave

• Madaba (the World’s Oldest Holy Land Map)

• The Qasr al-Yehud Baptism Site (live tour)

• The Monastery of Temptation (live tour)

• The Church of Saint Elisha (the Tree of Zacchaeus) (live tour)

• The Tomb of Zacchaeus

• Herodian Jericho

• Wadi Qelt (Ein Fawar)

• The Monastery of Saint George

• Qumran (live tour)

•  The Dead Sea (live tour) 

10. The Mount of Olives
 

• The Tomb of Lazarus (live tour)

• Bethphage

• The Pater Poster Convent (live tour)

• The Chapel of the Ascension (live tour)

• The Church of Lazarus

• The Orthodox Church of Mary, Martha and Lazarus

• The Tomb of the Prophets

• Dominus Flevit

• Palm Sunday Road

• The Church of Mary Magdalene

• The Tomb of the Virgin Mary (live tour)

• The Gethsemane Grotto (live tour)

• The Gethsemane Garden (live tour)

• The Basilica of the Agony (live tour)

11. The City of David and Valleys
 

• The Kidron Valley (The Valley of Jehoshaphat)

• The Synagogue of Theodotus

• The Tower of Siloam

• The Pool of Siloam (live tour)

• Akeldama (the Potter’s Field)

12. The Temple Mount and Jewish Quarter
 

• The Temple Mount (live tour)

• The Western Wall (live tour)

• The Hasmonean Palace (Where Jesus was tried by Herod Antipas)

• The Ophel Archeological Park (live tour)

13. The Christian and Armenian Quarters
 

• The Church of John the Baptist (Old City) (live tour)

• The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer

• The Russian Orthodox Church of Alexander Nevsky

• The Church of Saint James

• The Church of Saint Mark

14. The Via Dolorosa and Muslim Quarter
 

• The Orthodox Birthplace of Mary (live tour)

• The Church of Saint Anne (live tour)

• The Pool of Bethesda (live tour)

• The First Station of the Cross (live tour)

• The Second Station of the Cross (live tour)

• The Courtyard of the Flagellation (live tour)

• The Lithostrotos (Gabbatha) (live tour)

• The Prison of Christ and Barabbas (live tour)

• The Third Station of the Cross (live tour)

• The Fourth Station of the Cross (live tour)

• The Fifth Station of the Cross (live tour)

• The Sixth Station of the Cross (live tour)

•  The Seventh Station of the Cross (live tour) 

• The Eighth Station of the Cross (live tour)

• The Ninth Station of the Cross (live tour)

15. Mount Zion
 

• The Upper Room (live tour)

• The Domitian Abbey (live tour)

• The Church of Saint Savior

• The Church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu (live tour)

• The Byzantine Jerusalem Model

16. Jerusalem North and West
 

• The Third Wall

• The Monastery of the Cross

• The Garden Tomb

17. The Judean Hill Country
 

• The Church of John the Baptist (his birthplace in Ein Karem)

• Mary’s Spring (where Mary fetched water)

• The Church of the Visitation (the site of the Magnificat)

• Emmaus/Nicopolis

• The Cave of John the Baptist (the site of a John the Baptist cult)

18. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher
 

• The Original Narthex of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

• The Courtyard - the Parvis (live tour)

• The Holy Entrance (live tour)

• The Tenth Station of the Cross - The Chapel of the Franks

• The Chapel of the Nailing (live tour)

• ​The Chapel of Calvary (live tour)

• The Chapel of Adam (live tour)

• The Treasure Room

• The Holy Women Memorial (live tour)

• The Second Golgotha Chapel

• The Rotunda (live tour)

• The Edicule (live tour)

• The Chapel of the Angel (live tour)

• The Tomb of Jesus (live tour)

• The Coptic Chapel (live tour)

• The Syrian Chapel (live tour)

• The Catholicon (live tour)

• The Chapel of Mary Magdalene (live tour)

• The Chapel of the Apparition

• The Arches of the Virgin (live tour)

• The Prison (live tour)

• The Ambulatory (live tour)

• The Chapel of Saint Helena (live tour)

• The Chapel of the Discovery of the Cross (live tour)

• The Chapel of Saint Vartan (live tour)

• Ethiopian Monastery (live tour)

19. Addenda
 

• Holy Land Timeline (the entire history)

• The Church of the Holy Sepulcher vs. The Garden Tomb

• What is the West Bank?

• What do we mean by “Byzantine”?

• What do we mean by “Crusader”?

• What are the icons?

• What is the Status Quo?

• The History of Deir-es-Sultan (the Ethiopian monastery)

•  Where was John the Baptist killed? 

• Where was Bethany Beyond the Jordan?

• Where did Jesus feed the 5000?

• Where did the Transfiguration take place?

• Where is the Real Via Dolorosa?

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