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But his dream had been so vivid, that he found everything natural and simple. He knocked with his staff at the door. And behold! it really opened, but only by the space of a hand-breadth, and a soldier asked what he wanted. He wished, he said, to visit the Holy Sepulchre. He could do so, was the answer, if he paid thirty silver zecchines. As he had not so much, the gate was again closed.
After he had paid his devotions in the ruins of the Church of the Resurrection, he went on northwards round the city, and came again to the Jaffa Gate, where he sat down, firmly resolved to wait till some Christian pilgrims came, for they came hither from all countries of the world. He wanted to beg from them till he had collected the thirty zecchines.
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