Happy Chinese New Year!
恭喜恭喜，红包一个来！

Visit to Jerusalem

Western Wall

Lots of Jews come to this wall to pray

Visit to the Western Wall Tunnel underground.

A narrow tunnel underneath the Western Wall

where the wall of the 2nd Temple is excavated.

Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross)

We went to walk the Via Dolorosa. Despite some of

the stations not being mentioned in the Bible, it is

nevertheless an experience to walk the path that

Jesus last walked over 2000 years ago as He bears

the Cross for all mankind so that whoever believes in

Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Reminds me of Isaiah 53:3-7

3 He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.

Like one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he took up our infirmities

and carried our sorrows,

yet we considered him stricken by God,

smitten by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,

he was crushed for our iniquities;

the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,

and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,

each of us has turned to his own way;

and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth;

he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,

and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,

so he did not open his mouth.

2nd station - Jesus takes up the Cross

3rd station - Jesus falls the first time

5th station - Simon helps Jesus carry the Cross

7th station - Jesus falls the second time

Paintings inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

where the last 5 stations are

14th Station of Via Dolorosa - Tomb of Jesus

Visit to Soreq Cave (Stalactite Cave) Nature Reserve