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Every Passover, Jerusalem's population exploded from roughly 40,000 to over 250,000 as Jewish pilgrims flooded the city.
Passover was one of three pilgrimage festivals requiring Jews to travel to Jerusalem's Temple. Josephus records extraordinary crowd numbers, and the logistics were staggering — temporary markets, thousands of lambs for sacrifice, and Roman soldiers reinforcing the Antonia Fortress overlooking the Temple Mount. Rome always stationed extra troops during Passover because the festival celebrating liberation from oppression made Roman authorities very nervous.
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