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260 C onsidering the short length of each of the four Gospels, it is remarkable how much space the authors give to the build- up ...
261 Foreseeing that Pilate would not consider the charge of blasphemy to be sufficiently serious to merit execution, they tell h ...
262 ears—Barabbas is a hardened criminal, imprisoned for murder— but the Jewish authorities had been weaving through the crowd, ...
263 The Way to Calvary, by Marco Palmezzano (c.1460–1539) shows Jesus carrying His cross. Victims of crucifixion were required t ...
264 life drains from His body, Jesus grows weaker, but then He calls out in a loud voice: “Eloi, Eloi, lama s a b acht ha n i,” ...
265 the charges that are brought against Him. Although He is convicted and condemned to death in an alarmingly short space of ti ...
266 REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM LUKE 23:42, THE REPENTANT THIEF IN BRIEF PA S SAGE Luke 23:39–43 THEME It is nev ...
267 See also: The Divinity of Jesus 190–93 ■ The Crucifixion 258–65 ■ Salvation Through Faith 301 ■ The Power of the Resurrectio ...
268 BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN AND YET HAVE BELIEVED JOHN 20:29, THE EMPTY TOMB T he events of the first Easter morning ...
269 grave by sunset, the start of the Jewish Sabbath day. The morning after Jesus’s grief-stricken friends observe the Saturday ...
270 do you look for the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5); and an explanation for the empty tomb: “He has risen! He is not her ...
271 for “teacher” (20:16). Jesus gently tells her to return to the other disciples to share the news of His resurrection. Back a ...
272 T he good news of Jesus’s resurrection is first told to female disciples by angels, who appear to them at Jesus’s empty tomb ...
273 See also: The Last Supper 248–53 ■ The Crucifixion 258–65 ■ The Empty Tomb 268–71 ■ The Great Commission 274–77 THE GOSPELS ...
274 F or the 40 days following His resurrection, Jesus spends time with His disciples, teaching them about the significance of H ...
275 See also: The Calling of the Disciples 200–03 ■ Peter’s Denial 256–57 ■ The Road to Emmaus 272–73 ■ The Word Spreads 288–89 ...
276 question, and both times Peter replies that he does. Both times, Jesus also instructs Peter to take care of His sheep—a refe ...
277 after Judas’s betrayal and suicide— have become “Apostles,” from the Greek word meaning “sent.” For three years, Jesus has d ...
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