Jericho is the first city Israel took in the promised land, and in the Bible it stands for a gift: a city handed to God’s people before they had struck a blow. Its walls fell at a shout (Joshua 6), Rahab found mercy there amid judgment, and Jesus stopped there for a blind beggar and a tax collector. The New Testament draws its own lessons from Jericho: faith in Hebrews, and mercy for the outsider in Rahab, Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus.…

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