Cesarea, the City That Herod the Great Built to Honor the Emperor

More than a million jews would gather in the city of to celebrate a feast that remembered their deliverance from the world's greatest super power. The last thing rome wanted was to let this band of rebels get all fired up after a four glasses of wine party and start a revolt. So every year, pilot would head south from cesarea. And he would travel with great pomp and a show of force, soldiers, trumpeteers, banners, heralds, pronouncements. Meanwhile, on the other side,. comes a dirty, sweaty rabbi riding on a stinky old donkey and his ragtag bunch of disciples. What you have here is a very literal picture of two kingdoms coll