Gofena
The cave near Ephraim.
Inhabitants or natives
Samuel the Saphorim takes refuge in one of its caves.
Description
Village located between Beeroth and Ephraim on the border between Samaria, where Jesus condemned by the Sanhedrin took refuge, and Judea. This village is surrounded by caves.It is a hard Good path that Manaen took to lead Jesus to the place where he was expected. A mountain path, narrow, covered with stones, in the scrub and woods. "Here, Master, there is Gophna. Now we turn, I will count three hundred steps and I will be at the caves." Now they are in a rocky and bare corridor, resembling a cavern that rises between the walls of the mountain that almost touch. It looks like a fracture produced by some cataclysm, so strange is it: a huge blow with a large knife in the mass of the mountain that would have cut it off by a good third from the top. Above, up there, beyond the perpendicular walls, beyond the noisy agitation of the trees that grew on the edges of the huge notch, the stars shine, but the moonlight does not descend here, into this abyss.[1]
Notable events
It is in one of these caves that Jesus secretly welcomes Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus[2] then there he also welcomes Samuel the Saphorim who came to arrest him.[3]
Its name
No indication on this village which remains located but unidentified. Based on descriptions, it could be approximately situated in the narrow valleys northeast of Dayr Dibwan.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 559 EMV 560 EMV 561
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