Lowest point Quote by N.T. Wright

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame.…

— Francis Schaeffer

“Whether we believe in Jesus, whether we approve of his teaching, let alone whether we like the look of the movement that still claims…

— N.T. Wright

“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and…

— N.T. Wright

“You will not be able rationally to read the Gospel and regard the Crucifixion as an afterthought or an anti-climax or an accident in…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame.”

— Edward T. Welch

“...it is for me in the flesh to acknowledge that Jesus Christ was a letter written in blood to the lost, weak, and forsaken…

— Craig Keen

“It was the advent, or more specifically, the empty tomb which is the next great event. Even though prophesied thousands of years in advance,…

— Patrick Davis

“The crucified Christ, in short, gives us the “Magic Eye” to discern him in the depths of even the most horrifically violent portraits of…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“Discovering the Jewishness of Jesus and of the Early Jesus movement is a crucial step in the continual process of accurate interpretation of the…

— Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer…

— N. T. Wright

“The notion of a crucified Lord was a scandal to the first-century world. Crucifixion was a public form of execution, and its cruelty was…

— Peter T. O'Brien

“There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control,…

— Richard Rohr