Old way of the cross – doesn’t include the resurrection - More important than Christmas

New way of the cross – emphasized the the interaction
of Jesus (last supper, women of Jerusalem)
Crucifixion and Death of Jesus
- Simon of Cyrene forced to help carry the cross
because Jesus so weak
- Jesus refuses wine mixed with gall (painkiller)
- Soldiers cast lots for Jesus’ garments
- Jesus is crucified between 2 criminals: Gestas
and Dimas (not in the Bible)
- Inscription above his head: “King of Jews”
- INRI (Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum)
- 12 tribes into 2: Northern and Southern
(Jerusalem, tribe of Judah), King Solomon,
wisest but the worst king (tax labor), son of King
David
- Before dying Jesus recites a line from psalm 22:
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned
me?”
- Jesus dies and the temple veil is sent
- Veil of the temple, very thick curtain that
separated the Holy of Holies and around it
- Holy of Holies, elevated part where the ark of
the covenant is. Only priests are allowed here.
- Jesus’ mother, Mary, apostle John, and some
other disciples
- Nicodemus, from Sanhedrin who helped Jesus
- Sabbath (6pm)
- Resurrection, Greek Anastasis, to stand up
Resurrection, Reincarnation, and Resuscitation
- We do not believe in Reincarnation, rebirth in
new bodies or forms of life
- Resuscitation, to revive from apparent death or
from unconsciousness, also revitalize
- Resurrection is the work of God on the person,
assertion of his divinity
Historical and Transcendent Event
- Tomb of Jesus, guarded by soldiers however
naging empty pa rin yung Tomb despite guarding it
- Peace be with you, God’s very first greeting
- Only John stood by him
- Only 10 were there, excluding Judas Iscariot and
Thomas the doubter
- Emmaeus
- After Resurrection, he first talked to Mary
Magdalene
- The condition of Christ’s risen humanity
- Protoevangelium, first promise
- We, believers, become the third proof of the
resurrection
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Burial
- Joseph of Arimathea goes to Pilate to ask for
Jesus’ body

Christ Redemptive Death

- Highest point of human history
- Single most impt. event in the human history
because we are saved
- Scapegoat, finite limited being (every year) –
GOD, died the death he deserved
- Jesus’ Death, he experienced the worst type of
death which is HELL
- Hell, complete & total disconnection and
absence of heaven
- Christ’s Humanity became the instrument of
divine love and suffering,
- Jesus’ death is redemptive, buying our freedom
in exchange of his own life
- We are responsible for the death of Jesus

Resurrection of Jesus Christ

- If Jesus did not resurrect, then our death has no
meaning and neither Christianity