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320 CHRIST PREPARES TO REDEEM THE WO D
As HEROD'S TEMPLE PROBABLY LOOK
Surrounding the Courts of the Israelites and of the Women was the Court of the Gentiles. It was sepa­ rated from the other Courts by a wall four and one-half feet high. There were openings in this wall to allow the Jews to enter or leave the other courts. Near these openings were signs in Latin and in Greek warning all those that were not Jews that they would be pun­ ished by death if they entered within the enclosure. This Court of the Gentiles through an abuse was used as a market place, where animals for the sacri ces were bought and sold and where the money changers had their booths. It was from this Court that Christ drove the buyers and the sellers. On the outside of