Scripture: Psalm 85:8-13 Zechariah 9:9-12Luke 19:29-44

Text: "Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace."

I have held in my hand the only known existing acheological evidence in the world, that crucifixion was actually practiced, as the Bible and other literature asserts.

At the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, Joe Zias, a nephew to one of our group and custodian of the Dead Sea Scrolls, handed to us a hand-wrought iron spike about six inches long and with the tip bent over at right angles. There were some fragments of wood on the spike, but most startling was the fact that the spoke had been driven directly through an ankle bone.

Apparently, when the victim was crucified, the spike had struck a hard knot in the upright beam and had bent over. When his family went to retrie…