Nicodemus had not long before built a beautiful gate as an entrance to these streets, called the Gate of Moriah.

It was but just finished, and through it Jesus had entered the town on Palm Sunday.

Thus he entered by the new gate of Nicodemus, through which no one had yet passed, and was buried in the new monument of Joseph of Arimathea, in which no one had yet been laid.

This gate was afterwards walled up, and there was a tradition that the Christians were once again to enter the town through it.

Even in the present day, a walled-up gate, called by the Turks the Golden Gate, stands on this spot.
The road leading to the west from the gate of the sheep passed almost exactly between the north-western side of Mount Sion and Calvary.