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Holy Week in Jerusalem: the guided tour as text
The 3D lab's guided tour as a story you can read, stop by stop, with the scripture behind each one. It works on any device, without 3D.
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Palm Sunday
Stop 1 of 19
Palm Sunday · The descent
On the Mount of Olives, Jesus rides down toward the city while the crowd spreads cloaks and branches.
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: 10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Read Mark 11:1–11; Zechariah 9:9
Stop 2 of 19
Palm Sunday · Weeping over the city
Where the road comes over the slope the whole city lies before him, and Luke tells that he wept over it. Next: Monday.
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Read Luke 19:37–44
Monday
Stop 3 of 19
The Temple
In the Temple's outer court Jesus overturns the tables of the money-changers.
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Read Mark 11:15–19; Isaiah 56:7
Tuesday
Stop 4 of 19
Teaching · In the temple courts
By the treasury a poor widow puts in two small coins, all she has.
41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. 42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Read Mark 12:41–44
Stop 5 of 19
Teaching · On the Mount of Olives
That evening he sits on the Mount of Olives facing the Temple and speaks of the end. Next: Wednesday, at Bethany.
1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Read Mark 13:1–4; Mark 13:32–37
Wednesday
Stop 6 of 19
Bethany · At Simon's house
At Bethany, over the brow of the hill, Jesus comes to supper at the house of Simon the leper.
1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Read Mark 14:1–2; Mark 14:3
Stop 7 of 19
Bethany · The alabaster jar
As he reclines at table, a woman breaks an alabaster jar of pure nard and pours it on his head, and some grumble at the waste.
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. 4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? 5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Read Mark 14:3–5
Stop 8 of 19
Bethany · In memory of her
Jesus defends her: she has anointed his body for burial, and what she has done will be told wherever the gospel is preached. Next: Thursday evening.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. 7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. 8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. 9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Read Mark 14:6–9; Mark 14:10–11
Thursday
Stop 9 of 19
Upper room · The foot washing
In the upper room Jesus washes his disciples' feet.
12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Read John 13:1–15
Stop 10 of 19
Upper room · The bread and the cup
At the table he takes bread and the cup: this is my body, this is my blood. Next: across the Kidron to Gethsemane.
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. 23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. 24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Read Mark 14:22–26; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26
Stop 11 of 19
Gethsemane · The prayer
In the garden he prays while Peter, James and John sleep.
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Read Mark 14:32–42; Luke 22:39–46
Stop 12 of 19
Gethsemane · The arrest
Judas comes with a crowd carrying torches and clubs, and Jesus is arrested. Next: the high priest's courtyard.
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
Read Mark 14:43–50; John 18:1–12
Stop 13 of 19
Caiaphas · By the fire
In the high priest's courtyard Peter warms himself by the fire and denies knowing Jesus.
And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.
Read Mark 14:53–54; Mark 14:66–72
Stop 14 of 19
Caiaphas · The rooster crows
Before dawn the rooster crows, and Peter remembers Jesus' words and weeps. Next: Friday morning, before Pilate.
And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
Read Mark 14:72; Luke 22:60–62
Good Friday
Stop 15 of 19
Pilate
Jesus stands before Pilate at the judgment seat; where it stood is debated.
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
Read Mark 15:1–15; John 19:13–16
Stop 16 of 19
Golgotha · The way out
The procession leaves the city, and Simon of Cyrene carries the cross behind Jesus.
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Read Mark 15:20–25; Luke 23:26–31
Stop 17 of 19
Golgotha · The darkness
From the sixth hour darkness covers the land while Jesus hangs on the cross. Next: the tomb on Saturday.
33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Read Mark 15:33–39; Psalm 22:1
Saturday
Stop 18 of 19
The tomb · The sealed tomb
On the Sabbath the tomb is sealed with a stone and guarded.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Read Mark 15:42–47; Matthew 27:62–66
Easter Sunday
Stop 19 of 19
The tomb · Easter dawn
At dawn the stone is rolled away and the tomb is empty. That's the end of the tour.
And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
Read Mark 16:1–8; John 20:1–18
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