The Via Dolorosa: "The Painful Path"

Down the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day The soldiers tried to clear the narrow street But the crowd pressed into see A man condemned to die on Calvary. He was bleeding from a beating - there were stripes upon His back And He wore a crown upon his head And He bore with every step The scorn of those of those of those who cried out for his death. Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering Like a lamb came the Messiah Christ the King But He chose to walk that road out of His love for you and me Down the Via Dolorosa all the way to Calvary. Por la Via Dolorosa, triste dia en Jerusalem Las soldaldos le abrian paso a Jesus Mas la genta se acercaba, Para ver al que llevaba cruz. Por la Via Dolorosa, que es la via dolor Como oveja vino Cristo, Rey y Se??or Y fue El quien it por su amor por ti por mi Por la Via Dolorosa al Calvario y a morir. The blood that would cleanse the souls of all men Made its way through the heart of Jerusalem. Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering Like a lamb came the Messiah, Christ the King But He chose to walk that road out of his love for you and me Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary

Via Dolorosa

The Via Dolorosa included 14 Stations of Jesus' Painful Path:

Jesus’ 14 stations of the cross, the processional path, the parade of death through a few winding streets of the Old City Jerusalem from the former Antonia Fortress (named after Mark Antony) (Pilate’s Palace)  to His Burial in the tomb (now The Church of the Holy Sepulchre), Approximately 660 yards long, a little less than half mile. 

The 14 Stations Include:

1. Pilate’s Palace where Jesus was scourged and flogged with a whip  and tortured by the crown of plaited thorns

2. Jesus was given the cross

3. Jesus fell the first time

4. Mary, Jesus’ mother, greets Him

5. Simon of Cyrene carries the cross

6. Veronica uses her veil to wipe Jesus’ face of blood, sweat, mud, spital 

7. Jesus falls a second time

8. Daughters of Zion weep for Jesus

9. Jesus falls a third time

10. Jesus is stripped of His garments. Anesthetic (wine)

11. Jesus is nailed to the cross

12. Jesus dies on the cross

13. Jesus is removed from the cross

14. Jesus is laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea

"There is no other way nor means whereby man can be saved, only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ" (Helaman 5:9, Book of Mormon:Another Testament of Jesus Christ).