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The gospel of Mark makes this point even clearer: "But Jesus having let out a loud voice
died. And the curtain of the Holy Place was rent in two from top to bottom. But the centurion
standing alongside and opposite of him HAVING SEEN that he expired THUSLY [that is, He died
at the exact time the curtain tore in two], said: 'Truthfully, this man was a Son of God.'"
(15:37-39).

It is absolutely clear that those who were gathered around Christ as He hung on the tree
SAW THE CURTAIN TEAR at the time of His death.

THE ONLY PLACE IN THE ENTIRETY OF JERUSALEM WHERE THE TEMPLE
CURTAIN COULD BE SEEN FROM, AND A PLACE THAT WAS "OUTSIDE THE CAMP,"
WAS THE SLOPES OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES!

Why? Because the Temple was aligned in an east-west direction, with the HUGE curtain
(80 feet tall and 24 feet in breadth) hanging in the EASTERN portal of the inner Temple.

The crucifixion had to have taken place NEAR THE SUMMIT of the Mount of Olives be-
cause this was the ONLY AREA in all of the city and environs where the curtain of the Temple
could be seen from, and where the "camp" ended (3,000 feet from the Court of the Sanhedrin on the
Temple Mount). The 3,000 feet ended JUST SHY of the summit!

The "Place" of the City

There is even more evidence for this location of the crucifixion:

Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was impaled
was NEAR THE PLACE OF THE CITY [original Greek]; and it was written in Hebrew,
in Latin, in Greek. -- John 19:20.

What was this "place of the city" John was talking about?

We can find the answer to this if we take the Greek word for "place" (TOPOS) and see
where and how it occurs in other scriptures. Notice Acts 6:13-14:

And they brought forward false witnesses, who said: "This man does not stop speaking
things against this HOLY TOPOS and against the Law. For instance, we have heard him
say that this Jesus the Nazarene will throw down this TOPOS and change the customs
that Moses handed down to us."

The word "topos" can only refer to the TEMPLE!

And again, in Acts 21: "Men of Israel, help us. This is the man who teaches everywhere
against the People, and the Law, and THE TOPOS, and what is more, he has brought Greeks into
the temple [enclosure] and defiled THE HOLY TOPOS." (Verse 28).

What an exciting discovery!

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