Walking Tour of Jerusalem — The Tour Map
Every stop on the walk, in order. Tap any place to stand there.
Walk the streets He walked. This is a walking tour in real photographs — the Temple steps, the pools and pavements of the old city, the garden of the agony, the mount of the Ascension, and the little town of Bethlehem — with the Word of God on the screen as you arrive at every place. Where a site's identity rests on archaeology, we say so; where it rests on tradition, we say that too, plainly and kindly. The Scripture is the certainty; the stones are the witness.
About the places: some are found by the spade (the Southern Steps, the Pool of Bethesda, the garden at Olivet's foot). Others are places of honoured tradition — kept by believers since the early centuries, shown as tradition and never dressed up as proof. Both of Jerusalem's tomb traditions are walked here and labelled alike. About the pictures: every photograph is a real photograph of the real place, freely licensed from Wikimedia Commons and credited by name; the “Street View” panel, where offered, is Google's own viewer, looking at the same ground.
Leg 1 · Jerusalem — The Paths of His Last Days
1. The Temple Courts & the Southern Steps
Where He taught — and cleansed the house of God
A place found by the spade · Matthew 21:13
2. The Pool of Bethesda
John 5 — “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk”
A place found by the spade · John 5:8 · John 5:9
3. The Upper Room
The Last Supper
A place of honoured tradition · Luke 22:19
4. The House of Caiaphas
The courtyard — Peter's denial
A place of honoured tradition · Luke 22:61
5. Gabbatha — The Judgment Seat
John 19:13 — “Behold your King!”
A place of honoured tradition · John 19:13
6. The Via Dolorosa
The way of sorrows, walked slowly
A place of honoured tradition · Luke 23:28
7. Golgotha & the Tomb — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The tradition of the fourth century
A place of honoured tradition · John 19:41 · John 19:42
8. The Garden Tomb
The other honoured tradition — a garden outside the wall
A place of honoured tradition · Matthew 28:5 · Matthew 28:6
Leg 2 · The Mount of Olives
9. Gethsemane
The agony in the garden
A place found by the spade · Matthew 26:39
10. The Panorama — He Wept over the City
Luke 19:41 — coming down from Bethany
A place found by the spade · Luke 19:41 · Luke 19:42
11. The Olivet Discourse
Matthew 24 — “as he sat upon the mount of Olives”
A place found by the spade · Matthew 24:3
12. The Ascension
Acts 1 — “he was taken up”
A place of honoured tradition · Acts 1:11
13. Bethany — The Tomb of Lazarus
John 11 — “Lazarus, come forth”
A place of honoured tradition · John 11:43
Leg 3 · Bethlehem
14. The Road Down to Bethlehem
Luke 2:4 — “up from Galilee… unto the city of David”
A place found by the spade · Luke 2:4
15. The Church of the Nativity & the Grotto
The traditional place of the birth
A place of honoured tradition · Luke 2:7 · Micah 5:2
16. The Shepherds' Fields
Luke 2 — “good tidings of great joy”
A place of honoured tradition · Luke 2:14
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About the Photographs
Every picture in this tour is a real photograph of the real place, freely licensed through Wikimedia Commons. Google Street View, offered at each stop, is Google's own viewer; no Google imagery is copied or re-hosted here.
A Word of Geography
And there is more of His country to walk: the houses He entered in Galilee — Peter's house at Capernaum, the synagogue at Nazareth, the shore of the Sea of Galilee — belong to a future tour, for they are not in Jerusalem, and this tour will not pretend they are.