We know that in reaching out his hands to be nailed to the tree, Jesus was reaching out forevermore between earth and heaven, between death and life, between sin and grace.

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I propose that a particularly relevant image for our time is the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness.

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.

Yet all at once, Jesus cries out and breathes his last. The ground steadies, the sun shines back through the clouds, and everything returns to the way it was before.

Zahnd writes as a Christian who has long “resolved to know nothing … except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2), and he has ably invited his readers to do the same.

The second breathing out, the second aspiration, was on the cross. Jesus breathes out his Spirit, commending it upward to the Father and then downward in his final breath upon the world.

eating meat to observe good friday and a lancaster county today, the san juan bautista church held its 31st annual way of the cross. people gathered to reenact the final hours of jesus’s life.