Thursday, March 24, Via Dolorosa. My memory about my trip to the Holy Land is slowly fading, so I decided to limit my writing to two more blogs dealing with Fort Masada and Yad Vashem. With new topics coming up all the time, I shall skip my reports about the annexed Golan Heights, the mystical Kabala, the crusader stronghold Akko, and Haifa, the city of the German Templars and the Bahai.
Before Jesus walked his Way of the Cross, he had the last supper with his twelve disciples in the so-called Upper Room. The place near the Jaffa Gate is now called Mount Zion. It is crowned by a church, the Basilica of the Assumption.
Our guide Jonathan is explaining the situation of the Jerusalem quarters. For Christians, the vaulting Basilica commemorates the death of the Virgin and the place where she was taken to heaven with body and soul. Basilica of Assumption Somewhere in this labyrinth on an upper floor, there is the place where, according to tradition, Jesus broke the bread and offered the cup to his disciples: On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?
I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house. When evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the Twelve Matthew 26 The Upper Room was one of the few overcrowded places on our trip. The air was sticky, and the place was noisy, with guides babbling in many languages. We simply walked through. People visiting the Upper Room looked bored and tired.
Red Baron paid a fortune for a small piece of Sachertorte and an espresso. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his Cross Matthew 27 Entrance to the church complex of the Holy Sepulchre Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
