As we saw last Friday, people’s thoughts about Jesus are correct only as they match God’s truth revealed in Scripture. That’s because Scripture itself, from beginning to end, is all about Jesus. As ...

(RNS) — At the beginning of Holy Week, Christianity Today published an article on the crucifixion that caused a firestorm. In the article, Daniel Silliman described the work of a Bible scholar who has ...

Let’s begin with the order the verses appear in the New Testament. 1. “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Mark 15:34). Jesus cries out in anguish quoting the first verse of Psalm 22: My God, ...

In the Bible, Jesus never explains suffering, but he reaches out to those who are hurting, heals them and ultimately, on the cross, shares and redeems the suffering of all humanity, Pope Francis said.

Penal substitution is a theory of the atonement that says God literally punished Jesus on the Cross. This theory is problematic because one cannot justly punish an innocent person, and Jesus was ...

It seems like an easy question to answer: were nails used to affix The Lord to his cross? The Gospels are silent on this moment of the crucifixion, so how do we know it was with nails? If you look at ...

The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem begins with commemorating Jesus's condemnation by Pilate in the traditional site of Pilate's Praetorium and ends at the Holy Sepulcher with remembering his interment in ...

When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know, however, this has more to do with artistic convention than historical accuracy.

Jesus may have died from a blood clot that reached his lungs, an Israeli physician said Wednesday, challenging the popular conception that he died of asphyxiation and blood loss during his crucifixion ...

Jesus’s crucifixion is probably one of the most familiar images to emerge from Christianity. Good Friday, one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar, marks the event. But what was crucifixion?