Inspired by w18 No. 2 

Tourists walk under it every day. They snap photos, eat gelato, and check maps while standing in the shadow of an ancient arch. Some hardly glance up. But there it stands—weathered, cracked, and almost indifferent to time. The Arch of Titus, built nearly 2,000 years ago, has seen empires fall and rise again. Yet it remains… quietly honest.

The marble relief inside tells a story: Roman soldiers in motion, carrying off sacred objects—a golden lampstand, silver trumpets, the table of showbread. Not just any treasures. These came from Jerusalem’s temple.

If you’ve read Luke 21:20–24, that moment might feel familiar. Jesus once warned that the city would be surrounded by encamped armies. He said it would fall. He said its people would be taken far away. And though his followers believed him, many others didn’t.

But Rome believed in monuments.

This one—built just after the siege ended in 70 C.E.—shows the victors celebrating what Jesus had already predicted decades earlier. The arch wasn’t meant to honor his words. But it did. It still does.

Stone doesn’t exaggerate. It doesn’t invent stories. It just keeps bearing witness, century after century, to the truth of what Jehovah revealed through his Son.

Even the rocks cry out.