The second stand of the Way of the Cross is the place where Jesus Christ took his cross and was scourged: "Then Pilate took Jesus and ordered Him to be beaten. And the soldiers, weaving a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and clothed Him in purple, and said: Hail, King of the Jews! and They beat Him on the lanites..." The Franciscan chapels of Condemnation and Flagellation, as well as the monastery of the Sisters of Zion, were built over Lifostrotos (Greek. "paved place"), where the remains of the slabs of the outer courtyard of Pretoria have been preserved. Christ was publicly interrogated here, and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard rudely mocked him, calling him a false prophet. Nearby is a small Greek Orthodox church, above the entrance to which is carved the inscription: "The Imprisonment of Christ."The building was built on the site of the Roman Pretoria prison, where Jesus Christ and the robber Barabbas were held.A recess in the rock with a stone bench is the prison of Christ, he sat on this bench... From the beginning to the end, you do not leave the feeling of belonging...

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