
Via Dolorosa Via Dolorosa (You will find that this street can be noisy. Traffickers vying attract your attention, touting their wares. On both sides of the Via Dolorosa - old buildings, but instead of trails and old olive trees - seemingly endless stone steps. Christian pilgrims are often amazed to learn that this is a spectacle presented itself and the eyes of Jesus on that Friday. It was Easter week, in Jerusalem, crowds of pilgrims flocked, apple there was no place to fall ... Many turned away for fear of the Romans. And for good reason - so, the Romans forced Simon to carry the cross Cyrenean (Mark 15:21). It has long been the custom, that the Christians who come to the Holy City, took place last through Jesus.
For the last 1,000 years, nothing has changed, and modern tourists follow in the footsteps of their predecessors. Places associated with Jesus stops on the way to Calvary, marked by memorable milestones. Such stops 14. First - Pretoria, where sounded sentence of Pilate and where Jesus picked up his cross (Mark 15:15). A small part of this huge fortress monastery now occupies. The reason it are ancient stone slabs, known in Christian tradition as Gabbatha (John 19:13). Under the rubble - a giant water tank, built in Herod the Great, from which could quench the Roman soldiers, ridiculing Jesus (Matthew 27:27-31).
Stops on the Way of the Cross, located approximately in the six meters below the modern masonry, marked by signs. When at one time during the repair work carried out on the initiative of Municipality of Jerusalem, workers discovered the ancient stones, it was decided to pave their Via Dolorosa to emphasize the sanctity of the place for Christians. For Pretoria is the third stop, where Jesus fell under the weight of the cross. He fell several times, and these places are also marked. The fourth station - the one where Simon took the cross. In fact, with each stop has a story connected: Jesus meets Mary, the noble daughter of Jerusalem wipes the sweat from the face of Jesus, Jesus refers to the wives of Jerusalem (Luke 23:27-30) ... Last stop - in the ancient Temple of the Holy Lord, where there was a crucifix, and the position of the grave. Despite the modern atmosphere, and perhaps because of it, allows you to see the Via Dolorosa Jerusalem, exactly as Jesus saw him in his last hours. The Gospel of Luke, chapter 23: 26 And they led him, then seized one Simon man of Cyrene, who was walking off the field, conferred on him the cross to bear it after Jesus. 27 And there followed him great multitudes, and women who bewailed and lamented him. 28 And Jesus had turned to him and said, O daughters of Jerusalem! do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children, 29 because the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, wombs and unborn, and the paps nepitavshie! 30 Then will say to the mountains Fall on us! and the hills, Cover us! 31 For if a green tree, do it, then dry it would be? 32 led with him to death and two villains. 33 And when they came to the place called Calvary, there they crucified him and the malefactors, one on the right and one on the left.