Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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Quote: klause-ner a Jewish historian says:
"Crucifixion is a most terrible and cruel death,
Which man has ever devised for taking vengeance on his fellow country man".
Quote: Roman statesman and
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Brethren
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2001
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Consider this:
Jesus was nailed to a cross with heavy, square wrought-iron nails through His wrists and through His feet. He hung there for several hours. When His body slumped, excruciating, fiery pain would shoot along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain - the nails in the wrists
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Contributed by John Harvey on Mar 31, 2004
Crucifixion was a form of capital punishment reserved for slaves and those who were a threat to Rome. This explains why Pontius Pilate chose crucifixion as the penalty for Jesus Christ, since Jesus claimed a
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
"The crucifixion of Jesus is sufficient for all, but is efficient only for
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Contributed by Kim Huffman on Mar 30, 2004
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In a painting of the Crucifixion by the famous Dutch artist, Rembrandt, our attention is drawn immediately to the cross and to Him who hangs there.
Then looking at the crowd gathered around the Cross, we note the attitudes and actions of these people. As our eyes drift to the edge of the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Mar 31, 2010
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"Crucifixion was an ancient form of execution (borrowed from the Carthaginians) used by the Romans. The victim was nailed to a large cross, constructed from wood, and left to hang there for hours or days, until the victim died. Ancient records speak of thousands of people
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Baptist
Contributed by J. Allen Lucas on Mar 16, 2008
The crucifixion gives us hope. It gives hope to those who are dead in faith, and also to those who are presently
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Pentecostal
Contributed by J. Allen Lucas on Mar 16, 2008
Just hours before His crucifixion, Jesus showed His love once again for mankind by sitting down and serving His disciples. While they bickered among themselves as to who was the greatest among them, Jesus set about the task of ministry.
It was not a glorious position of preaching or standing in
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Sasnett on May 27, 2010
Someone has said that the cross has become so ordinary that we hardly see it anymore. Isn’t that a deeply sad statement? Can you imagine a time when you could hardly be moved by the death sentence being passed on someone very near to you? Yet church members can act as if they no longer see the
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MY GOD, MY GOD
Jesus' lonely cry of, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!" is a desperate cry of loneliness. I believe this was the worst and the most horrible part of the crucifixion for Jesus. I believe it was worst than the beatings, the betrayal of Judas, the desertion of the disciples,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 28, 2008
THE EMBLEM OF SUFFERING AND SHAME
Crucifixion was a form of execution that the Romans had learned from the Persians. The Persians had developed a method of crucifying victims by impaling them on a pole. Later cultures developed different methods of crucifixion, And Rome employed several of them.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 8, 2004
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THE BLOOD OF CHRIST- COMMUNION MEDITATION
If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” you probably remember the scene of Jesus’ scourging. It’s rather hard to forget the whip with steel and bone and glass knotted in its leather striking Jesus over and over again.
There is a part
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In his book Dare To Believe, Dan Baumann shared some thoughts about crucifixion that should deepen our gratitude for what the Savior did for us. He wrote, "The twentieth century has forgotten how cruel and hideous crucifixion really was. We have perhaps unwisely and sometimes unconsciously
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
God did not abolish the fact of evil: He transformed it. He did not stop the
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It was said that Martin Luther was observing a painting of the crucifixion of Jesus...
and he was so deeply moved that he
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Nazarene