After we left Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, located now within the Church of Holy Sepulchre, we headed down the Via Dolorosa. All day I had the song Via Dolorosa, in my head. Okay, sometimes I couldn’t help but sing a little of it out loud. I’m one of those people. I usually have a song in my head that occasionally accidentally comes out for others to hear.
Jesus did not get to head down it as we did. He walked UP it, to Calvary, after being brutally beaten by Roman soldiers, and carrying a cross on his back.
It is simply the path Jesus took as he carried his cross up the hill to Golgotha, where he was crucified.
What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.
They all answered, “Crucify him!”
23“Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!” (Matthew 27:22-23)
When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
25All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
26Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. (Matt. 27: 24-26)
You can click here to see our Israeli tour guide talking to us about it. She was outstanding. The video may be hard for you to hear, though, unless you have a device that’s capable of loud volumes.
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. 30They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. (Matt. 27: 27-31)
33They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). (Matthew 27: 32-33)
“From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.
46About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,c lemasabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).d (Matthew 27:45-46)
Back in those days, the Bible wasn’t divided into chapters and verses the way we do today. They named a passage by the first words of that passage. “Eli, Eli, lemsabachtani” is Jesus not only crying out to God, but also referencing Psalm 22.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?
and it ends like this:
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
30Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
31They will proclaim his righteousness,
declaring to a people yet unborn:
He has done it!
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Stunning quest there. What happened after? Take care!
kemonbet
Its such as you learn my thoughts! You seem to understand
a lot about this, such as you wrote the guide in it or something.
I feel that you simply could do with a few % to drive the message home a bit, but other than that, that
is excellent blog. An excellent read. I will certainly be back.
Amazing. Jesus suffered so much. Pastor Vernon McGee said his visage as man was unrecognizable. John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You're braver than me going so near the entrance to the Golden Dome. Your tour guide sounds so smart!
Candace
You are so right about Jesus. Isn't it amazing that he did it all willingly, out of love? I might not have ventured that close, but our tour guide wanted to get us as close as possible. She was the bomb.com.
LOVING THE ISRAEL STORIES. THATS A TRIP OF A LIFE TIME, AND I'M SO GLAD YOU GOT TO GO. MY BROTHER, RAY'S CANCER DOCTOR IS FROM ISRAEL, AND HE WAS SUCH A NICE MAN WHEN I MET HIM. HE TOLD US A LOT ABOUT ISRAEL. THANKS FOR THE PICTURES
Oh good!! I'm so glad you like them. I still can't believe we got to go.
I did not know Ray has cancer. 😞 I am sad to hear that.
That is a crazy story about the plane! Cassidy was headed to Iceland and ran into my good friends who were headed to Paris! I can't remember how it all worked but one was a layover for the other.
This trip is something else, April!
It WAS crazy!! He also ran into a co-worker from 7 years ago in the hotel lobby....in Tel Aviv of all places!! We enjoyed Israel so much. Can't wait to go back.
Thanks so much for sharing!
No prob, Bob. :)
Thanks so much for sharing!:-)