Each year as we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus our Lord we all take time to reflect on the great impact the cross has had on each one of us. In the Roman world at the time of Christ’s crucifixion the cross was a reminder to the Jew that they were in slavery …
Jn.6:15 – So Jesus, aware that they intended to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself, alone. This was really the turning point in the ministry of Jesus; until now it was all about the miracles and the changed lives. Obviously the crowds didn’t quite …
2 Cor.8:9 – For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. The birth of Christ gives us a glimpse to the depths of God’s plan of redemption. All of us were born …
Lk.23:27- And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. This is one of the greatest of all mysteries, the crucifixion of Jesus. Peter said that He was tortured at the hands of wicked men to fulfill the predetermined plan of God. Isaiah said, …
Isa.52:13-15 – “Look! My servant will prosper and succeed!He will be highly honored, raised up, and greatly exalted!Just as many were appalled at the sight of him(for so marred was his appearance, like an object of horror;he no longer looked like a man),so now he will startle many nations.Kings will be shocked speechless before him.For …
Jn. 19:17-20 – Jesus carried his own cross out of the city to the place called “The Skull,” which in Aramaic is Golgotha. And there they nailed him to the cross. He was crucified, along with two others, one on each side with Jesus in the middle. Pilate had them post a sign over the …
2 Cor.2:14,15 – God always makes his grace visible in Christ, who includes us as partners of his endless triumph. Through our yielded lives he spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go. We have become the unmistakable aroma of the victory of the Anointed One to God —a perfume of life …
Matthew 27:27-30. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right …
Jn. 19:19,20 – Pilate had them post a sign over the cross, which was written in three languages—Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. Many of the people of Jerusalem read the sign, for he was crucified near the city. The sign stated: “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. There were so many supposed coincidences that …
John 12:12-15 ¶ The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And …
