Israel - Day 7 - Jerusalem and Bethlehem

Hello!  Today is our seventh day in Israel!  Today we will visit the Garden of Gethsemane, we will have a communion service at the Garden Tomb, then we will visit the Wailing Wall - the remnant of Solomon's temple.  We will also visit the Via Dolorosa and the Arab Market.  In the afternoon we will get to visit Bethlehem if it is open.  We will visit the Church of the Nativity and the Shepherds' Fields.  We will also get to walk the famous Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem.  (I am so excited about this day, but I know it will be an emotionally intense one, more than I can imagine.  How humbling to experience such significant places that I have read about and been taught the stories of for years!)

Scripture references:

Jerusalem -

Genesis 22
Joshua 10:1-26
Judges 1:8
2 Samuel 5:5-16; 6:1-12; 24:18-25
1 Kings 2:10; 6-9
2 Kings 18; 25:1-6
Ezra
Nehemiah
Isaiah 36-37
Matthew 21:1-17; 27-28
Mark 15-16
Luke 2:21-52; 23-24
John 13-17; 19-20
Acts 2-7; 15:1-29; 21:15-23; 22


Mount of Olives -


2 Samuel 15:30
Zechariah 14:4
Matthew 21:1; 24:3; 26:30
Mark 11:1; 13:3; 14:26
Luke 19:37; 22:39
John 8:1


Pool of Bethesda - 


John 5:7-9


Garden of Gethsemene -


Matthew 26:36
Mark 14:32


Christ's Tomb -


Matthew 27:57-28:8
Mark 15:42 - 16:8
Luke 23:50-24:12
John 19:38-20:10


Tomb of Absalom -


2 Samuel 18


Bethlehem -


Genesis 35:16-20; 48:7
Joshua 19:15
Judges 12:8-10; 17:7-9; 19
Ruth
1 Samuel 16:4; 17:12; 20:6, 28
2 Samuel 2:32; 23:14-16, 24
1 Chronicles 11:16-18
2 Chronicles 11:6
Ezra 2:21
Nehemiah 7:26
Jeremiah 41:17
Micah 5:2
Matthew 2:1-18
Luke 2:1-20
John 7:42


Shepherds' Fields-


Luke 2:8-20