Crucifixion

The Crucifixion

The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Galatians 2:20b)

By the time the sun had risen on Friday morning, Christ had been arrested, hauled to the High Priest’s house, denied thrice by Peter, falsely accused…

The Events of the Crucifixion

Truly this Man was the Son of God! (Mark 15:39)

Mark’s gospel describes the crucifixion of Christ in simple language. It is the characteristic of a reliable witness that he does not embellish the true story, rather he just tells it as it was. Mark…

The Crucified

And they crucified him. (Mark 15:24)

It would have appeared to the naked eye that this was the end of Jesus of Nazareth. He was a condemned criminal, nailed to a post, stripped of dignity, and left to die. But what appeared as a defeat was our victory. His death paid for the…

The Necessity of the Cross

And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly… And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If…

They Crucified Him

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him…

The Crucifixion

The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Galatians 2:20b

By the time the sun had risen on Friday morning, Christ had been arrested, hauled to the High Priest’s house, denied thrice by…

The Promised Comforter

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans…

God Active in Our World

Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates…

The Essential Ingredient

Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”…