What if Jesus’ cross really is a healing burden? John tells us, in the gospel read at the liturgy for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, that God did not send the Son to judge the world — krino, in Greek.

When Jesus died on the cross, he left behind a small and frightened group of followers struggling to make sense of his humiliating end. Most Jews either rejected his message or ignored it.

In contrast to the synoptic Gospels, the cross in John is a place of glory for Jesus (17:1) and a place where he reveals the divine most clearly (8:28). Most important, it is on the cross that ...

A cloud that looked like Jesus Christ appeared in the sky above a group of church-goers following mass in the Philipinnes - ...

The sayings of Jesus on the cross end where they began, with one word: “Father.” With the last breath that he can draw, Jesus wants to say his favourite word.

Jesus is the Word because through him all things are made,” says Jonathan, 8. “What he said became. Through the words of ...

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"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking ...

Jesus’ seven sayings from the cross are: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Today shalt thou be with me in ...

Palm Sunday commemorates the entry of Jesus Christ, ... Christians celebrate the date by distributing and weaving palms in the shape of a cross. By Phillip Nieto Fox News. Published April 2, ...

Ocean Grove, New Jersey, has rebuilt its Hurricane Sandy-torn pier into the shape of a cross. Association president Michael Badger and Pastor Chris Durkin shared the values it represents.