The Palace of Caiaphas

After being betrayed by Judas, Jesus was arrested and taken to the High Priest, Caiaphas. Both his arrest and subsequent interrogation were illegal according to the law at that time. We visited two rooms, 2,000 years old, where prisoners (including Jesus) where held. We could see holes in the rock walls that were used to tie the ropes that held the prisoners hands and feet for scourging. You should be able to see two of those holes in the picture here. There was another area in the basement where we went down lots of stairs into a deep pit. There is no record that Jesus was ever put into this pit. It was a dark, cold basement and it was sad being there and seeing where they would have tied up the Savior. It made His suffering so much more real to me.