Via Dolorosa

 

 Via Dolorosa ("Way of Grief" in Latin) is a road in the old city of Jerusalem, a path where Jesus was led in agony, carrying the cross of crucifixion. There are a total of 14 stations along this path where events occurred on the way to Golgotha, located at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. There are eight stations along the road itself and six additional stations in the compound of the church.

 

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 Luke 23, 26-32: "And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will. And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death".
 

 

 

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  Jesus is led to the cross
 

          

 

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