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This verse is conventionally interpreted to mean that Mohammad was miraculously transported to a "Further Mosque," in Arabic ''al-Masjid al-ʾAqṣā'', as part of a one night journey in 621 and briefly ascended to heaven there. The al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is one of only three that are suggested as destinations for Islamic pilgrimage. The other two pilgrimage mosques are in Mecca and Medina.

This verse is conventionally interpreted to mean that Mohammad was miraculously transported to a "Further Mosque," in Arabic ''al-Masjid al-ʾAqṣā'', as part of a one night journey in 621 and briefly ascended to heaven there. The al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is one of only three that are suggested as destinations for Islamic pilgrimage. The other two pilgrimage mosques are in Mecca and Medina.

==Josephus==

==Herod==

The Jewish historian Josephus was a solider in the war of 70 AD:{{cquote|Now this temple, as I have already said, was built upon a strong hill....But in future ages the people added new banks, and the hill became a larger plain.<ref>Flavius Josephus, ''The Wars of the Jews'', Book V, 5:1.</ref>}}Herod rebuilt the temple at great expense:{{cquote|Accordingly, in the fifteenth year of his reign, Herod rebuilt the temple, and encompassed a piece of land about it with a wall, which land was twice as large as that before enclosed. The expenses he laid out upon it were vastly large also, and the riches about it were unspeakable. A sign of which you have in the great cloisters that were erected about the temple, and the citadel which was on its north side. The cloisters he built from the foundation, but the citadel he repaired at a vast expense; nor was it other than a royal palace, which he called Antonia, in honor of Antony.<ref>Flavius Josephus, ''The Wars of the Jews'', Book I, 21:1.</ref>}}

The Jewish historian Josephus was a solider in the war of 70 AD:{{cquote|Now this temple, as I have already said, was built upon a strong hill....But in future ages the people added new banks, and the hill became a larger plain.<ref>Flavius Josephus, ''The Wars of the Jews'', Book V, 5:1.</ref>}}Herod rebuilt the temple at great expense:{{cquote|Accordingly, in the fifteenth year of his reign, Herod rebuilt the temple, and encompassed a piece of land about it with a wall, which land was twice as large as that before enclosed. The expenses he laid out upon it were vastly large also, and the riches about it were unspeakable. A sign of which you have in the great cloisters that were erected about the temple, and the citadel which was on its north side. The cloisters he built from the foundation, but the citadel he repaired at a vast expense; nor was it other than a royal palace, which he called Antonia, in honor of Antony.<ref>Flavius Josephus, ''The Wars of the Jews'', Book I, 21:1.</ref>}}

In the time of Jesus, Antonia was a Roman fortress. Like the Herodian temple, it was destroyed in 70 AD.

The Herodian temple took forty-six years to build.<ref>John 2:20</ref> In the time of Jesus, Antonia was a Roman fortress. Like the temple, it was destroyed in 70 AD.

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