Day 05: Jerusalem Via Dolorosa - Golgotha - Wailing Wall - Bethany

After breakfast, we go to the Old City of JERUSALEM. Visit to the Bethesda Pool, where Jesus healed the paralytic man walk through the church of condemnation and Flagellation, where we begin the via Dolorosa, The name of via Dolorosa (or Via Cruces) is relatively recent; when a name was sought for the stretch of road, between the fortress Antonia and Golgotha, along which Christ walked bowed under the weight of the cross. Monastery of the Flagellation, where Jesus was questioned by Pilate and then condemned. Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him, and the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head and they put him in a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! Then they smote him with their hands Arch of Ecce Homo, in memory of the words pronounced by Pilate as he showed JESUS to the crowd, Erected under Hadrian (135 AD) to celebrate the capture of Jerusalem. The Third Station commemorates Christ's first fall on the Via Dolorosa. The place is marked by a small chapel belonging to the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate. The meeting between Jesus and his mother is commemorated by a small oratory with an exquisite lunette over the entrance, adorned by a bas-relief carved by the Polish artist Zieliensky. An inscription on the architrave of one door recalls the encounter between Jesus and Simon the Cyrenian, Greek Catholics preserves the memory of the meeting between JESUS and Veronica whose tomb may also be seen her. The place of JESUS 'second fall is marked by a pillar, which rises at the crossroads between the Via Dolorosa and the picturesque and lively Market Street. On the outer wall of a Greek Orthodox monastery is carved a small cross blackened by time. It was that point that Jesus met the pious women. The third fall of Jesus is commemorated by a column of the Roman period at the entrance to the Coptic monastery. The last five Stations of the Cross are situated inside the Holy Sepulcher. Follow the footsteps of our Lord JESUS on his way to Calvary, culminating the journey to Golgotha and the place of the tomb itself - the Church of the HOLY sepulcher. Lunch enroute, and then visit St. Mark Convent the traditional site where Mary went to sleep after Cruzification, the Last Supper Room - where we remember the Last Supper and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles on Pentecost. Thereafter walk to the Domitian Abby and the traditional site of the Tomb of King David and the other Upper room. Later we visit to the Western Wailing Wall considered to be the holiest site for the Jews. And Onwards to Bethany - The house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus (Lazarus Tomb Later back to hotel for overnight stay & dinner.