Robert Griffin III’s Jesus ‘on the cross’ line didn’t go over well during LSU-Ole Miss By . Bryan Fonseca. Published Oct. 1, 2023, 4:38 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

First, the Gospels' accounts of the scourging, beating, and suffering that Jesus endures, even before he is crucified, are unsightly and not typically replicated on church crosses. Remember Mel ...

I think the main reasons are given in First Peter chapter 1 verses 18 through 20. Let's discover, together, the answer to the question, “Why did Jesus go to the cross?” First, there was a plan ...

However, at least eight passages in Isaiah (41:8-9, 44:1-2, 21 [2 references], 45:4, 48:20, and 49:3) identify the whole nation of Israel as God’s servant, and so we focused primarily on the ...

The slowness to depict Jesus on a cross was not about a general sensibility to the visual arts, although they do seem to have been very selective in what they did portray.

The Cross of Jesus is a cosmic event. The world is darkened, when the Son of God is given up to death. The earth trembles. And on the Cross, the Church of the Gentiles is born.

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 ...

Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.

Gracelia Romero, portraying Mary, grieves over Freddie Gonzalez, portraying Jesus, after he was crucified during a Stations of the Cross hike in Baker Canyon in Silverado on Friday, Mar 30, 2018.

The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in Homewood on Good Friday afternoon drew more than 200 believers who meditated on the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth.