Interplanner
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lol,no I actually know that if anyone studied these things in college then they would know that Herod the great built the first wall,and that the second wall was built by the time Jesus made the comments about the stones in Matthew 24.
But the third wall(one in the article) was started by Herod Agrippa 1 when he became king of Judea in ad41-44. Now Herod A1 was born in ad11 so when Jesus made that comment in Matt. 24 approx. ad32 Herod was about 22 years old. So ad32-ad41 is 9 or so years after Jesus death so there is zero chance/possibility that the third wall that they found had any thing to do with Matthew 24(it did not exist when Jesus made the comment).
Now Herod Agrippa 1 started the wall between ad41-44 but it was looked at as shaky by Claudius Caesar and so Agrippa halted work on it to show his support to Claudius. Then in ad64 because of the first revolt preparations the third wall described by Josephus was finished,and again it has absolutely nothing to do with the things about those stones(one upon another) because none of those stones had yet been set upon another right?
Now as for all us uneducated bible thumper's it might do us well to actually "search a thing out" and make sure old whitestone aint pulling your leg,lol if not your at the mercy of the novelist making good on their college degree's...
I wouldn't say it has nothing to do with it; if true, it makes it a greater paradox. Loads it with pardox. I haven't checked. The original quote above would not have been about building by zealots to prepare for a revolt. They didn't have that kind of resources and official administrators would never say they were preparing to make Judea independent.