Show FAMOUS FIELD OF BLOOD Said Said Sard to Be Re Spot Judas Purchased With the Silver for Which He Sold Hi His Master Malter Just outside the walls of or Jerusalem fn tn the Valley of ot HInnom Is a rocky plain known as the orField or orField orField Field of Blood It Is the potters potter's field purchased with the 30 pieces of or silver BUver for tor which Judas sold his master Hera for tor centuries visitors to the holy city dying while on their pilgrimage found resting lg place Gray and barren it Jt Is a n desolate desolates s spot t. t solitary but for the chance visItor visitor visitor vis vis- and a few withered gray clad monks from a Jl nearby monastery For Fora f a small fee tee one of these ancient recluses re re- closes cluses will wUl show you sou the t tights sights of or the place Caves and underground passages pas pas- sageS honeycombed with tombs are cut cat In the rocky field Tour guide leads you down lown worn age steps cut I perhaps in the 1 sixth century Into crumbling halls balls Iris His torch casts flickering flickering flick flick- ering uncanny shadows 8 on the damp gray walls The place seems to 10 resent recent re re- resent sent cent your our Intrusion It is 18 the place I of sleep the hall ball of the dead On one ong side bide e Is the tomb of J tome some warrior monk who followed the fortunes of Richard Lion Heart of or I England to the hol holy land dying at nt th the very ery gates of t the cIt city his bis master had Loped hoped to con con- quer He must have hare died penniless too as so man many of these zealots did else his bones hones had not rested ted In the potters potter's field Near Is a ruined charnel house said to have been built bv by the Crusaders ers for tor their dead It is a turn tum turn bling g ruin ne nearly thirty t feet et long by twenty wide with one side of or naked rock Beneath It are two of the largest largest largest larg larg- est caverns caverns their rock sides pierced with tombs and shallow Jm 11 0 graves groves Inthe Inthe In Inthe the roof root of th the ruin are arc holes through which the bodies of the dead were lowered The Field of Blood Is on the northeastern northeastern northeastern north north- eastern slope of the III Hill nm of Evil Uvil Council Coun Coun- cil where tradition sn says s 's the villa of Caiaphas stood and where the time chief priest and elders plotted the execution lion tion of J Jesus |