Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed - Isaiah 53:3,4.
1. Station 1 - Jesus is condemned to death
So Pilate, wanting to gratify the
crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged
Him, to be crucified - Mark 15:15.
2. Station 2 - Jesus is given a heavy
wooden cross to carry to Golgatha
And when they had mocked Him, they
took the purple off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify
Him. Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of
Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to
bear His cross. And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is
translated, Place of a Skull - Mark 15:20-22.
3. Station 3 - Jesus meets the women
of Jerusalem
And a great multitude of the people
followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him. But Jesus, turning
to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for
yourselves and for your children. For indeed the days are coming in which they
will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which
never nursed!’ Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and
to the hills, “Cover us!”’ For if they do these things in the green wood, what
will be done in the dry?” - Luke
23:27-31.
4. Station 4 - Jesus meets His Mother
Mary
“Now there stood by the cross of
Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary
Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved
standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to
the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her
to his own home” - John 19:15-27.
5. Station 5 - Jesus is stripped of
His garments
They said therefore among themselves,
“Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,” that the
Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “They divided My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots” - John 19:24.
6. Station 6 - Jesus is nailed to the
cross
And when they had come to the place called
Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and
the other on the left - Luke 23:33.
7. Station 7 - Jesus dies on the
cross
“After this, Jesus, knowing that all
things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I
thirst!” Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a
sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. So when Jesus
had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He
gave up His spirit”- John 19:28-30.
8. Station 8 - Jesus is taken from
the cross
After this, Joseph of Arimathea,
being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate
that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So
he came and took the body of Jesus. And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus
by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred
pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with
the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury - John 19:38-40.
9. Station 9 – Jesus is laid in the
tomb
Then he bought fine linen, took Him down, and wrapped Him in the linen. And he laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses observed where He was laid” - Mark 15:46-47.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, We thank You for shedding
Your precious blood on the cross to save us. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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