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Four thoughts: (continued) 4. Jesus was stretched out on a cross between two thieves so that we would always know the reach of love. For God so loved the world that he gave his one + only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal...
Four thoughts: (continued) 2. Jesus was wounded so that we could be healed. Surely he took up our pain + bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him + afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was...
If you’ve ever wondered, “What is the heart of Christianity? What’s at the center of it all?” This is it . . . The idea of substitution. Four thoughts: 1. Jesus was born to die so that we could actually live. Do you realize that...
Why did Jesus die + what does all this mean to me? Isaiah answers the question in Isaiah 53: 1. . . . it was our weaknesses he carried . . . (v. 4) 2. . . . it was our sorrows that weighed him down . . . (v. 4)...
Joseph of Arimathea took a risk + went to Pilate + asked for Jesus’ body. (Joseph was an honored member of the high council + he was waiting for the Kingdom of God to come.) Pilate couldn’t believe that Jesus was already dead, so he called for the Roman officer +...
Sunday is a day of feasting + celebration since Jesus rose on a Sunday. Take today to catch up on your reading + to contemplate what you've read so far.
At least five supernatural miracles occurred as Jesus died. • The sky turned black at noon. (Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33) The day Jesus died, at the moment the sun should have been the brightest, a dark gloom filled the sky + fell over the land, lasting...
Crucifixion was death by exhaustion, shock, asphyxiation or suffocation. During crucifixion, the stress on the muscles in the diaphragm put the chest into the inhaled position. In order to exhale, the crucified person had to push up on his feet so that...
By 9 a.m. on Friday, Jesus was hanging on the cross suspended between heaven + earth, as though unworthy of both. Historians indicate that while hanging on the cross, naked + with their body in shock, most victims would lose control of their bodily functions,...
The Romans didn’t invent crucifixion, but they had perfected it as a form of torture + capital punishment. By the time of Jesus, it had become the favorite method of execution throughout the empire. In fact, the Jewish historian Josephus indicates that Titus crucified...