Answers Quote by N. T. Wright

Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a…

— Robert Anderson

“In particular, they seem to have interpreted Jesus’s crucifixion within a much bigger—and perhaps more dangerous—story than simply the question of whether people go…

— N.T. Wright

The crucifixion saved him [Jesus]. He never had to deal with the fact that the kingdom of God wasn't ever going to come. His…

— Philip Pullman

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

— John Ortberg

The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of…

— Octavius Winslow

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the…

— John Ortberg

"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning…

— R. A. Torrey

“Reading backward in the light of the subsequent events, they interpreted the crucifixion as part of the strange, dark divine plan in which the…

— N.T. Wright

Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers…

— Anonymous

The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them…

— Paul Weyrich

That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son…

— Robert Anderson