EVENTS SURROUNDING JESUS' EXECUTION
- Judas – BETRAYAL
- The disciples arguing about who was greatest or falling asleep in Gethsemane – INSENSITIVITY TO HIS NEEDS AND CONCERSN
- The all fled at the time of His arrest –A BANDONMENT
- The threefold denial by His most assertive follower, Peter – DENIAL AND DISLOYALTY
- False witness at His trail – MISREPRENTATION
- The maneuverings of the Jewish leaders – INJUSTICE
- The attack by the Roman soldiers – BRUTALITY, ABUSE, AND CRUELTY
- Being stripped naked and crucified – HUMILIATION
- The taunts of the onlookers – MOCKERY AND VERBAL ABUSE
- The deep brutality of the crucifixion itself.
ALL OF THIS WAS INFLICTED ON AN
ENTIRELY INNOCENT AND RIGHTEOUS VICTIM!
STILL HE FORGAVE!
It's Still The Cross
THE
CROSS
One board
nailed
across
another.
For more than
2000 years,
people have
followed this sign. In the middle of the
Cross is the
heart of the man who died upon
it.
A peasant
who established a kingdom. A carpenter
who built a
church for all times. A sentenced
criminal
whose death won eternal life. The
Cross is a
sign of contradiction: We gain our soul
by losing it.
Our
weakness
is our
strength.
The
last shall
be first.
Our enemies
deserve our
love.
The greatest
deed
is to care
for the
least of
humanity.
At the
juncture of
two
planks, all
truth
can be found
–
the crux of
life
and death.
Let us
make the way
of
the Cross
our
way of life.
By
Lisa O. Engelhardt
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