Traveling down Palm Sunday Road

This week, we're going to some of the places Jesus went to (or might have been to, depending if the experts are correct) that final week before His death and resurrection.

First, Palm Sunday Road!

In John 12, Jesus leaves Bethany (still on my "to visit" list!) and travels to Jerusalem, traveling up and over the Mount of Olives to enter the city through the Eastern Gate, which is now closed. It's almost Passover, and the city is teeming with people. He instructs His disciples to go find a specific young donkey He ride into the city. The crowds filled the streets and laid their robes and palm branches on the ground for Him to travel over, just as they would a king. 

As He drew near the city, Luke 19, another account of the same event, says that He wept over Jerusalem, because the people there didn't realize who He really was, and because of that, He knew what was coming in about 35+ years.

So, the first stop of Palm Sunday Road is the Dominus Flevit, which is Latin for "The Lord wept". 

It's a Catholic church dedicated to where Jesus wept as He entered Jerusalem, and has an incredible view!

I don't have a photo of the outside of the church, but it has a really unique shape (I blame the heat for addling my brain that day). This church is only a few hundred years old, as it was built on the remains of a Byzantine church that was eventually destroyed when Jerusalem fell in 1187 AD.

On this site is are also some tombs dating back to the Canaanite era (a looooong time ago), and some relics from that time period were found as well.

That's it for Dominus Flevit! Let's head back to Palm Sunday road and head down towards the Garden of Gethsemane.