On the cross, when Jesus dies, the Spirit, who is the great sinew, holding together Father and Son, creation and its creator, is expelled from the Son. In breathing out the Spirit, God is sundered ...

For 2,000 years the crucifix has been a potent symbol of both Jesus Christ's death and the religion which sprung up in its aftermath. ... Jesus Christ May Not Have Died on Cross.

With few exceptions, crux immissa (“t”) has been the favored shape of the cross because the titulus is described as being placed above the head of Jesus in Matthew and Luke, and there is no ...

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 ...

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.

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

Jesus' "good news to the poor" includes, in effect, "bad news" for the rich, as the "woes on the rich" in Luke 6:24-25 demonstrate, and Jesus's call for justice and his denunciation of injustice ...

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross isn’t just a historical event—it’s the divine epicenter of Christian redemption, embodying mysteries that surpass human comprehension. Let’s unpack each of the ...

When Jesus was already crucified on the cross, one of the Roman soldiers placed a crown of thorns on him as a symbol of mockery of him, since many of his followers described him as the king of kings.

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.

"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 ...

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