Mount of Olives Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday Walk

 

Christians gather on Mount of Olives to celebrate Palm Sunday

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Palm Sunday Celebration Mount of Olive walk

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Here Jesus began his last journey to Jerusalem Bethphage, Mount of Olives. Holy Week (Palm Sunday)

Video taken from the channel: Zahi Shaked. Israeli tour guide צחי שקד. מורה דרך

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Palm Sunday Road and the Jewish Cemetery (Mount of Olives)

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Palm Sunday in Jerusalem Holy Week 2018

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RS Tours: Palm Sunday walk down Mount of Olives

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Mount of Olives: Palm Sunday

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The Mount of Olives is a central place to the Holy Week traditions of Palm Sunday, the agony in the garden, the betrayal, and arrest of Jesus, and his ascension into heaven. It also provides a stunning view of Jerusalem. The Via Dolorosa is another route you can walk in Jerusalem. The walk is about a half mile and descends 400 feet.

Two Paths, The Mount of Olives, Palm Sunday, and “Good Thursday” Archaeology March 20, 2016 There are two distinctive paths on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, both leading down to the Old City, intersecting at the Kidron Valley near the traditional Garden of Gethsemane.A place of great resonance in Christianity, this beautiful walled garden at the bottom of the Mount of Olives, revered since the apostolic period, is the site where – according to the four Gospels of the New Testament – Jesus experienced the agonizing premonition of his passion and death, and where he was arrested the night before his crucifixion.Walk down the street on the Mount of Olives that Jesus may have walked down during his triumphal procession into Jerusalem.

Mount of Olives: Palm Sunday Saxum Foundation. Holy Thursday.As they descend the Palm Sunday road, which we walk on every Holy Land pilgrimage, the views alternate between spectacular views of Jerusalem from the slope of the Mount of Olives and Kidron valley full of tombs, a reminder that this valley is also called “Jehosaphat,” the valley of Judgment, the valley of decision.

Walk the Palm Sunday Road. Starting at the top of the Mount of Olives, walking down Palm Sunday Road, and ending at the Eastern Gate, the path that Jesus took his last days in Israel is a spiritual journey for many tourists. It was on this road that Jesus road a donkey to the Temple Mount, and was later to be sacrificed on the Mount of Olives four days later.

Tuesday afternoon Jesus left the city and went with his disciples to the Mount of Olives, which overlooks Jerusalem due east of the Temple. Here Jesus gave the Olivet Discourse, an elaborate prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the age.In the New Testament, Jesus often travelled over the Mount of Olives on the 40-minute walk from the Temple to Bethany.

He also went there to pray or to rest. He also went there to pray or to rest. He went down the mount on his triumphal entry to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, on the way weeping over the city’s future destruction (Luke 19:29-44).

Question: “What happened on the Mount of Olives?” Answer: The Mount of Olives, sometimes referred to as “Olivet” in the KJV (2 Samuel 15:30; Acts 1:12) or “the mount facing Jerusalem” (1 Kings 11:7), is a ridge running along the east side of Jerusalem, separated from the city walls by a ravine and the Brook Kidron. The Mount of Olives was the site of many events in the Bible and will.The Mount of Olives, a popular site to visit for those on Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land, is a two mile-long ridge with three peaks in East Jerusalem.

There are towers on each of its three summits. The Mount of Olives faces the Old City of Jerusalem and separates it from the Judean desert.Photos of a walk down the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, following the path that Jesus took on Palm Sunday and again on Holy Thursday and the Passion.

Stay safe and healthy. Please practice hand-washing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times.We have worship services on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and 3 separate Easter Sunday services! A Walk Through Holy Week. Mt.

Olive is pleased to provide this Holy Week Devotional. It was made for families and individuals to study the events of Holy Week and to grow in faith and relationships with one another.The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet is a mountain ridge east of and adjacent to Jerusalem’s Old City. It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes. The southern part of the Mount was the Silwan necropolis, attributed to the ancient Judean kingdom.

The mount has been used as a Jewish cemetery for over 3,000 years and holds approximately 150,000 graves, making it central in the.Palm Sunday procession from Bethphage on the Mount of Olives (© Custodia Terrae Sanctae) As the Gospels record, Jesus sent two of his disciples to find a donkey and her colt, and he rode into Jerusalem while crowds spread their cloaks and branches on the road, shouting “Hosanna to the Son of David!Mount of Olives, multi-summit limestone ridge east of the Old City of Jerusalem and separated from it by the Kidron Valley. It is holy to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam for messianic and eschatological reasons.

It is also the site of a large ancient Jewish burial ground.

List of related literature:

[831] The Mount of Olives was the centre for congregating and praying during pilgrimages in the month of Tishri.
from A History of Palestine, 634-1099 by Moshe Gil, Ethel Broido Cambridge University Press, 1997
On the afternoon of Palm Sunday the whole church goes out to the Mount of Olives and returns in solemn procession to the city bearing branches of palm.
from The Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition by Gregory Dix Bloomsbury Academic, 2005
Tradition pinpoints Gethsemane on the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives.
from Crossway ESV Bible Atlas by John D. Currid, David P. Barrett Crossway, 2010
On Sunday through Wednesday of the week lead­ing up to the Resurrection, Jesus spent each night in Bethany, just two miles east of Jerusalem on the op­posite slope of the Mount of Olives.
from NLT Life Application Study Bible, Third Edition, Large Print (Red Letter, Genuine Leather, Black) by Tyndale Tyndale House Publishers, 2020
8:1 Mount of Olives: not mentioned elsewhere in the gospel tradition outside of passion week.
from Little Rock Catholic Study Bible by Catherine Upchurch, Irene Nowell, Ronald D. Witherup Liturgical Press, 2011
It may be allowed then, that Jesus came down from the mount of Olives with his disciples, crossed the brook Cedron which ran through the valley, and so entered the garden of Gethsemane, which therefore lay between the brook Cedron and the city.
from A Harmony of the Four Gospels: in which the Natural Order of Each is Preserved by James Macknight Longman, Hurst, 1809
After the meal, Jesus and his disciples walk to the Mount of Olives (26:30), a mountain ridge east of the Temple Mount.
from Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible by James D. G. Dunn, John William Rogerson Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003
Sunday through Wednesday Jesus spent each night in Bethany, just two miles east of Jerusalem on the opposite slope of the Mount of Olives.
from NKJV Life Application Study Bible, Second Edition by Tyndale Tyndale House Publishers, Incorporated, 2012
The summit of the Mount of Olives was a Sabbath’s day’s walk from the city, which was calculated in rabbinic sources to be 2,000 cubits (0.7 miles or 1,120 meters).58 It is likely that Jesus would have led them into open country, rather than close to the village of Bethany, to witness his ascension.
from The Acts of the Apostles by David Peterson Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009
One cultic calendar (Lev. 23.15–21) set the date fifty days after the elevation of the first barley sheaf and did not call the celebration a pilgrimage-feast.
from The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with Apocrypha by M. Jack Suggs, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, James R. Mueller OUP USA, 1992