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- 1. Jesus is condemned to death
- Consider how Jesus, having been scourged and crowned with thorns, is unjustly
condemned by Pilate to death on a cross.
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- 2. Jesus takes up His cross
- Consider how Jesus, bearing this cross on His shoulders, offers His suffering to the
Father for us.
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- 3. Jesus falls for the first time
- Consider this first fall. Jesus, bleeding, crowned with thorns, so weak He can
hardly walk, yet forced to carry this heavy burden. The soldiers strike Him and He falls.
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- 4. Jesus meets His mother
- Consider this meeting between mother and son ... their tender love for one another,
their hearts torn asunder.
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- 5. Simon helps Jesus carry the cross
- Consider how the torturers force the bystander Simon to carry Jesus' cross. They
want Jesus to stay alive long enough to die crucified.
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- 6. Veronica wipes Jesus' face
- Consider how Veronica recognizes Jesus' pain and attempts to lessen His suffering.
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- 7. Jesus falls for the second time
- Consider this second fall. It reopens His wounds, hurts His head, pains His whole
body.
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- 8. The women of Jerusalem weep for Jesus
- Consider how these compassionate women wept at the sight of the tortured Jesus.
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- 9. Jesus falls for the third time.
- Consider this third fall. Though extremely weak, Jesus is urged on by the soldiers.
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- 10. Jesus is stripped of His garments
- Consider the violence with which the soldiers tear off the bloody garments which
cling to His broken skin and start the wounds bleeding again.
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- 11. Jesus is nailed to the cross
- Consider how Jesus, arms extended on the cross, offers to His Father the ultimate
sacrifice for our salvation.
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- 12. Jesus dies on the cross
- Consider how Jesus, after hours of agony and anguish on the cross, abandons Himself
to the Father and dies.
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- 13. Jesus is removed from the cross
- Consider how two disciples take the broken body down from the cross and place Jesus
in His grieving mother's arms.
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- 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb
- Consider how the disciples, filled with grief, carry the body to the burial place.
They close the tomb and come away confused and sorrowful.
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