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an unselfish act of kindness. i can't think of a better way to celebrate easter or passover. [ cheers and applause ] from all of us at . this is mike huckabee from new york. good night and god bless. >> it is the cruellest and most humiliating punishment. crusifixtion. >> he has been the source of comfort and conflict, peace and war. >> walk in his steps in jerusalem. follow his apostels to rome. who is jesus? a fox in focus special is next. >> live from america's news headquaters, i'm marianne

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rafferty. 250 people are still missing many of them high school students. families are expressing frustration with rescue efforts. ferry's captain is arrested on suspicion of negligence and abandoning those in need. meantime search teams recovering a 13th body following an avalanche on mount everest. all of the victims were guides. several other guides were injured and hospitalized. three of them remain missing. this is the deadliest disaster on mount everest which is the world's tallest peak. back in the u.s. 10,000 runners showing what boston strong is all about. survivors of last year's bombings along with other runners in a special 5-k run.

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it involved kevin spacey and duvall patrick. >> eater sunday mass in st. peters square will begin moments from now. on saturday he presided over an easter vigil at st. peters and baptized ten people. the vigil among the most solem services. join us for our live coverage starting around 15 minutes from now. that's proximately 4:15 a.m. eastern time. i'm maryann rafferty. for now we take you to who is jesus hosed by john scott. for the latest headlines log on to fox news.com. his story has been told in

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art. in music. ♪ >> and in words. but still we search to discover who is jesus? he is called the son of god. the lord of lords. the messiah. and he called himself the son of man. the prince of peace. the good sheppard. from a humble beginning here to his death in jerusalem jesus changed the world. i'm john scott. welcome to our special program. on this program you'll visit sites where jesus lived preached and died. you'll follow the paths of his a

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apostles to rome and you'll meet a former atheist and a priest and a rabbi that call themselves the god squad. >> we are to learn about how we have similarities to each other. bethlehem where the gospels say jesus was born. more than three centuries later the roman emperor constantine converted to christianity. he built a church on the site where tradition held that mary placed her newborn baby in a manager. but do we know this spot wrapped of marble and smelling of installed incence is the place of jesus birth. >> we have no artifacts

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associated with jesus himself. many of the events described in the new testament are impossible to verify because they're events but the types of people who are described, the sites that are mentioned are in fact sites and people who we know both from archaeology and historical sources. >> nazareth is the town where jesus grew up. it's called his hidden life because only one story is told about jesus's youth, his encounter at age 12 with men at the temple. his public life began when he was 30 years old with his baptism by john at the jordan river. this is the sea of galilee. the area was settled for centuries before the time of christ. it is here among these shores that jesus began his ministry, called his disciples and

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performed many of his miracles. according to the gospel of matthew jesus's own town. although archaeologists can't verify that, it's a good example of a small fishing village from around the time of jesus. it dates long after the time of jesus but clearly it was built on the foundation of a much older structure. archaeologists can't prove it but it's possible the voice of jesus preaching once echoed off these stones. >> it's possible that we have excavated something archaeological that jesus is associated with. but how would you know? the only way you could identify him in the arkrecord would be by finding an ancient inscription that says this is the cup jesus

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own and drank out of. this is the bed jesus slept in. becomes a matter of faith with all the sites relating to jesus, from bethlehem to jerusalem and every place in between. over the last 2000 years, millions and probably billions of believers have followed jesus, even without knowing exactly where he walked. from the sea of galilee we travel to the center of the holy land, jerusalem. the ancient city sacred to jews christians and muslims. it's where he preached, he prayed, where he was put on trial, and where he was crusified. coming up, you'll walk with jennifer griffin where jesus walked.

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♪ >> reporter: jerusalem the old jerusalem, it's old city and the temple mound are clearly visible from this a place jesus knew very well. i'm standing on the mount of olives where jesus caught his de diciples and where he came to pray. he would have camped here on his pilgramage. the story of jesus as a jew. >> when jesus lived and, indeed

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there wasn't a thing as chis juan. the term christianity wouldn't have been familiar at all. >> he wasn't a christian, he wasn't a catholic he wasn't a protestant, he was a jew. >> he was a jew. he lived as a jew and he died as a jew. they even called him rabbi or teacher. he was circumcised in the jewish tradition and buried he was wrapped in a white simple linen shroud as jews are to this day. the rabbi wants jews and christians to understand their common roots. jesus he says was an abservant jew fighting to purify his religion. >> he would have seen himself as a religious informer and he would have preached and talked to the masses seeking to bring them back to the truths of his jewish heritage. >> this is something we have to

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remember. they were observing jewish law. he said i did not come to destroy the law and the prophets. i came to fulfill. so he himself was an observant jew. the the they were all observant jews until their deaths. >> she has lived in jerusalem for 24 years walking jesus's path and explaining his life. >> this is a model of the temple that would have stood there when jesus was preaching. >> this is the model. >> in jerusalem, much of jesus's time was spent in or near the temple. jews called it the second temple, rebuilt on the spot where god spared abraham from sacrificing his son isaac. today jews christians, and muslims revere the site. it was destroyed in 70 a.d.

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600 years later when muslims ruled the city, they built this dome over where god tested abraham. muslims unlike jews regard jesus as a prophet. >> these are literally rocks, these are steps that jesus walked on. >> these are the stone steps that they walked on. >> excavated by archaeologists beginning in the late 1960s next to the south wall of what's left of the temple mount, just around the corner from where jews pray for the temple to be rebuilt. >> we can think of him going up into the temple to worship. this is where he entered the temple. entered over there and come it out here. >> came out here going down the stairs. >> but right now i'm walking somewhere -- >> you're walking on the original steps right now. >> the words jesus spoke during his brief ministry were in many

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cases lifted directly from old testament prophesy. >> in what's called the sermon on the mount, he actually takes verses from what we call in hebrew, the tora or the law and expands on it. blessed are those that are meek for they shall inherit the earth. and this we can connect to one of the greatest prophesies in the old testament from isaiah chapter 53. >> the mount of olives where jesus stayed when visiting jerusalem is also fulfilling a prophesy. according to jewish tradition, the messiah is supposed to visit from the mount of olives. >> there was a tradition in a the messiah would come in through the mount of olives through the golden gate to the temple. >> many regard it as the place of the last judgment and many jews are buried on the mount of olives because they await the resurrect from the dead at the

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time of that event in zechariah chapter 14. they await the time they will araise from the dead and face judgment. >> there was a belief among jews at that time that resurrection would occur. >> yes. absolutely. >> that's not a new concept? >> it's a jewish concept. >> baptism also has its roots in jewish tradition. >> and when the temple was standing, all people that went on to the temple site would go through a purification process and immerse in ritual waters. this was symbolic. they had to be clean before they went into the pool. it was a symbolic purification. this is where baptism comes from. this is what would have been part of jesus's life. >> other jewish symbols of christian belief, the last supper was a jewish dinner to mark passover.

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>> jesus gathered to celebrate the passover meal. >> the bread is unlevened bread. they didn't have time for the dough to raise. >> the blood refers to the blood they smeared on the door posts of the hows because god passed over the houses. >> the passover meal, the bread would be thin wafers. that's how the principle or the practice of wafer and wine has come into communion in christian usage. so servants were lost and all that remained was the communion of eating the bread and drinking the wine in the remembrance of jesus's life. >> the word christian wasn't used more than 30 years after

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jesus died. those that believed jesus was christ the jewish messiah. >> they detached themselves and they forgot that their origins and roots are in jewudishm and saw themselves as loyal jews and only has the church began to discover it's jewish roots and origins. there are other new discoveries as well. for instance, the final steps jesus took to his crucifixion long marked by the via delarosa. but did he actually pass this way? 20th century archaeology disputes that. we'll tell you more after this. good morning and happy

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easter. it's just after 10:00 a.m. at the vatican. tens of thousands of people gathering in st. peters square for easter sunday mass. pope francis celebrating his second easter mass as pontiff. later he'll give his blessing to the city of rome and to the world. pope francis breaking with tradition last year and giving his blessing entirely in italian. let's go live now to st. peter's kwar year's easter mass. [ speaking foreign language ] ♪

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