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The Prophets Point to Christ: verses to memorise
…on display, and clothing divided by lot. All four Gospels draw on this psalm when they narrate the crucifixion, and Jesus quotes its opening line from the cross.
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Psalms 22:16-18
…on display, and clothing divided by lot. All four Gospels draw on this psalm when they narrate the crucifixion, and Jesus quotes its opening line from the cross. It teaches you how the Gospel writers read their Bibles, and it lets you hear Jesus praying Scripture in his worst hour. Matthew 27:35…
Bible studies (24)
Chapter study
Genesis 22: The Mountain Where God Revealed the Gospel
…mount is debated and cannot be settled from Scripture, which locates the crucifixion outside the gate, in Hebrews 13:12, without naming the mountain. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Scripture's own identification of mount Moriah as…
Chapter study
Romans 8: No Condemnation, No Defeat, No Separation
…acts He did not commit, as with Joseph's brothers in Genesis 50:20 and the crucifixion in Acts 2:23. Evil remains the responsibility of those who do it. God ordains all things, including hard providences Passages such…
Dig Deeper
Does Romans 8:28 mean everything that happens to me is good?
…not approve of, and Scripture asserts exactly that in Acts 2:23, where the crucifixion is both the determinate counsel of God and wicked hands. What good means here Verse 29 answers it, and the answer changes how the…
Dig Deeper
Where was Moriah, and why does the place matter?
…mount is debated and cannot be settled from Scripture, which locates the crucifixion outside the gate, in Hebrews 13:12, without naming the mountain. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Scripture's own identification of mount Moriah as…
Reading plan
The Gospel of John in 21 Days
…hard. John 17 Intercession In this prayer on the night before his crucifixion, Jesus prays not only for his disciples but for everyone who will believe in him through their word, including every reader of this gospel…
Devotional
Delivered Up by God's Plan
…and killed; WEB Peter, preaching to the crowd only weeks after the crucifixion, holds two things together without softening either. The men who crucified Jesus are called lawless, and they acted. At the same time, this…
Devotional
Every Eye Will See Him
…detail including those who pierced him is startling. It reaches back to the crucifixion itself and forward to a moment when those responsible, and by extension all who rejected him, will see the one they refused. The…
Devotional
Father, Forgive Them
…garments among them, they cast lots. WEB This prayer is spoken while the crucifixion is happening, not after it, and to people who have not asked for anything. The soldiers are casting lots for His clothing in the same…
Devotional
Handle Me and See
…the mark of the nails. The resurrection body carries the history of the crucifixion rather than erasing it. Glorification in Scripture does not mean the past is hidden; it means the past is transformed and displayed as…
Devotional
More Than Five Hundred Witnesses
…15:3-7 is extremely early, likely formulated within a few years of the crucifixion, since Paul says he received it, echoing rabbinic language for passing on fixed tradition. This closes the gap between the event and its…
Devotional
Not My Will, But Yours
…done." WEB Jesus does not receive a vision clarifying every detail of the crucifixion ahead. He prays honestly for another way, then submits completely to what He already knows the Father's will to be, and Luke records…
Devotional
Peter Restored to Feed the Sheep
…“Feed my sheep. WEB Peter denied Jesus three times the night before the crucifixion. Here, after the resurrection, Jesus asks him a matching three questions, not to shame him but to restore him publicly to the calling…
Devotional
The Truth of Christ
…WEB This is spoken in a room of frightened friends on the night before the crucifixion. Thomas has just said they do not know where He is going. Jesus answers with Himself: I am the way, the truth, and the life (John…
Daily reading
Daily Study day 7: Abiding
…me you can do nothing. Jesus speaks these words on the night before the crucifixion, continuing the discourse that began in John 13. He states the picture in John 15:1, that he is the true vine and the Father is the…
Reading plan day
The Gospel of John in 21 Days, day 20: The cross
John walks through the unjust trial and the crucifixion in careful detail, and records Jesus' last word from the cross as it is finished, a declaration that the work of salvation was complete, not merely that his life…
Chapter study
John 15: The Vine, the Branches, and the Friends of God
…walking with His disciples toward Gethsemane on the night before His crucifixion, describes Himself as the true vine and His Father as the husbandman. He commands the disciples to abide in Him as branches abide in a…
Verse study
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13)
…its force. Jesus speaks these words hours before His arrest, trial, and crucifixion, fully aware of what awaits Him. This is not abstract moral teaching offered from a safe distance; it is a man describing, in advance…
Devotional
Take Up Your Cross
…take up his cross, and follow me." WEB Jesus speaks this before his own crucifixion, so his hearers could not have missed the meaning: a cross was an instrument of execution, and taking one up meant walking toward one's…
Devotional
The Obedience of Christ
…a criminal's death. Even the death of the cross is the last step down. Crucifixion was the most shameful death Rome had. Paul will not let his readers picture the obedience of Christ as noble and tidy. Christ's…
Devotional
The Steps of a Good Man Are Ordered
…and foreknowledge of God, showing that even the deliberate evil of His crucifixion was held within God's established purpose, the ultimate proof that His providence reaches every step.
Devotional
The Suffering Servant
…plainest language the Old Testament offers. Written centuries before crucifixion existed as a Roman practice, the chapter describes exactly the kind of death Jesus would die and precisely the reason the New Testament…
Devotional
Truly This Was the Son of God
…was the Son of God!" WEB A Roman soldier who had likely overseen many crucifixions says this after watching Jesus die, not after any miracle he performed while living. The confession comes from watching how he died: the…
Devotional
Weak, Yet We Live
…is woven into its center. The same pattern that carried Christ through crucifixion into resurrection life is the pattern Paul expects for himself: real weakness, and real power from God at work through it. Weakness was…
Reading plan day
The Gospel of John in 21 Days, day 19: Intercession
In this prayer on the night before his crucifixion, Jesus prays not only for his disciples but for everyone who will believe in him through their word, including every reader of this gospel since. He prays specifically…
Bible topics (5)
Biblical concept
Lamb of God
…directly, calling Christ our Passover, sacrificed for us. The timing of the crucifixion at Passover, and the requirement that the lamb be without blemish, both point to a deliberate fulfilment rather than a coincidence.…
Biblical concept
Messiah and Christ
…disappointment of a crucified Messiah because the resurrection reframes the crucifixion itself as the moment of anointed kingship rather than its defeat. Messiah and Christ are two different figures or ideas in the…
Biblical concept
Passover
…to Jerusalem for Passover, and lambs were slaughtered at the temple. The crucifixion took place during that feast, in a city crowded with pilgrims and full of the smell of sacrifice. Exodus The tenth plague, the blood…
Biblical concept
Priest
…the church is a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9). The curtain torn at the crucifixion (Matthew 27:51) did not abolish the priesthood, it opened it, so that ordinary believers now bring sacrifices of praise and of a life…
Biblical concept
The Cross
…at all. The Old Testament prepares readers for the cross long before crucifixion existed as a Roman practice. Psalm 22 describes pierced hands and feet, mocking onlookers, and divided garments, all details that Matthew…
Questions and answers (8)
Bible question
Does God hear my prayers?
…are heard because of who carries them The tearing of the temple veil at the crucifixion is a statement about access. The place that only one man could enter once a year is opened, and Hebrews reads that event as the…
Bible question
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
…Paul had also met Peter and James personally, Galatians 1:18-19. Crucifixion was a Roman public execution designed to end movements. Deuteronomy 21:23 made a hanged man appear cursed, so a crucified Messiah was a claim…
Bible question
What is the Gospel?
…a summary that was already old and settled within twenty years of the crucifixion, not something Paul composed on the spot. Corinth was a wealthy, status-obsessed port city, and the church there was tempted to treat the…
Bible question
What must I do to be saved?
…of Paul's answer but its outworking in people who had a specific sin, the crucifixion of their Messiah, to turn from. Mark 10:17-22 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him,…
Bible question
Why did Jesus have to die?
…a coming figure who suffers on behalf of others. It was written with no crucifixion in Judah's experience, no historical event to describe. It reads instead like an eyewitness report of Good Friday, centuries in…
Bible question
Why did Jesus rise from the dead?
…is widely celebrated and rarely explained. Many people could describe the crucifixion in more theological detail than the resurrection, even though the New Testament treats the second as the hinge of the whole message.…
Bible question
Why do Christians still struggle with sin?
…are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.' The crucifixion of the flesh is described as already accomplished in position while its influence must still be actively resisted in practice. Are…
Bible question
Why is Jesus called the Son of God?
…centurion says it after watching him die, which places the title beside the crucifixion rather than beside the miracles. Romans 1:4 says declared, not became. The resurrection publicly established a sonship the letter…
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