Crucifixion Sentence Examples

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  • The crucifixion of Jesus was sanctioned by Pontius Pilate, who was procurator of Judaea A.D.

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  • The Crucifixion, and subjects from the Passion, are never represented.

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  • Paul became a believer in Jesus within a few years of Jesus' crucifixion.

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  • He painted the "Battle of Joshua" in the Quirinal Gallery, the "Crucifixion of St Andrew" in the church of that saint on Monte Cavallo, various works for the Jesuits, some also in co-operation with his brother.

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  • For the lower classes it was crucifixion, burning or the wild beasts.

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  • The usual form of sacrifice was crucifixion.

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  • The east window is of stained glass, representing the crucifixion of Our Lord.

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  • And he bestowed on the angel so commissioned the title of Son, and foretold for him insults, blasphemies, sufferings and crucifixion.

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  • The Crucifixion at some previous Passover would then fall not later than A.D.

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  • But if the tradition of the consulship was thus, it would seem, already an old one about the year 200, there is at least some reason to conclude that trustworthy information in early Christian circles pointed, independently of the Gospels, to the year 29 as that of the Crucifixion.

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  • The conversion of St Paul, which falls within the second period, would on this arrangement fall somewhere between five and ten years after the Crucifixion.

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  • The earliest direct witness is Tertullian, who definitely states that Peter suffered under Nero by crucifixion.

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  • The master of the barbarians fell below the lowest Hellenic level when he put the brave Rhegine general Phyton to a lingering death, and in other cases imitated the Carthaginian cruelty of crucifixion.

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  • Less abundant, but still sufficient to prove the artist's intention, are the preliminary studies to a picture of the Crucifixion.

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  • We may say, then, that it was written some twenty years after the Crucifixion.

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  • It is adequate to its presumed purpose of offering to distant Gentile converts a clear account of their Master's earthly work, and of the causes which led to His rejection by His own people and to His death by Roman crucifixion.

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  • A curious tradition, illustrating the efforts of the dispersed people to conciliate their oppressors, asserts that the Jews of Worms gave their voice against the crucifixion, but that their messenger did not arrive at Jerusalem until after the event.

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  • The church of Santa Maria degli Angioli, built about 1499, and till 1848 occupied by Franciscans, contains several very fine frescoes (particularly a Crucifixion) painted 1529-1530 by Bernardino Luini.

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  • The term "a Calvary" is applied to a sculptured representation of the Crucifixion, either inside a church, or adjoining one in the open air.

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  • A medieval legend ascribes the conformation of bill and coloration of plumage to a divine recognition of the bird's pity, bestowed on Christ at the crucifixion.

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  • The majesty of Christ is also impressed upon us by the signs at His crucifixion, some of which are related only in this Gospel, xxvii.

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  • Such subjects as the Deity, the Trinity, the Annunciation,the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the Coronation of the Virgin, are not uncommon.

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  • The more thoroughgoing Docetae assumed the position that Christ was born without any participation of matter; and that all the acts and sufferings of his human life, including the crucifixion, were only apparent.

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  • It was not pretended that the apostles had legislated on the matter, but the general and natural feeling that the anniversaries of the crucifixion and the resurrection of Christ ought to be celebrated by Christians took expression in a variety of ways according to the differing tastes of individuals.

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  • He is said to have suffered crucifixion at Patras (Patrae) in Achaea, on a cross of the form called Crux decussata (X) and commonly known as "St Andrew's cross."

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  • And throughout the crucifixion narratives, though the suffering is quietly understated, it is equally clear.

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  • This linked with the highly visceral nature of the crucifixion is reminiscent of much of Peter Greenaway's work from around the same time.

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  • Put on trial for sedition, he was executed by crucifixion.

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  • Top of the pots Turner nominee Grayson Perry's first artwork was a plate depicting a crucifixion, called Kinky Sex.

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  • We are left asking why the Qur'an should choose to deny the crucifixion without good evidence.

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  • You've already seen that there is no way Jesus could have survived the crucifixion.

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  • God of the cross, you have known crucifixion, holding your course in the face of disdain.

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  • The fine interior The east window showing the crucifixion.

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  • The aliens showed a hologram, which they claimed was the actual crucifixion of Christ.

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  • Jesus convinces Judas to betray him and his own crucifixion swiftly follows.

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  • I marvel at thy voluntary crucifixion, O Compassionate One!

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  • And Paul's ministry was a kind of long, drawn-out crucifixion.

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  • Following his mock crucifixion, Beth tells him that he's " an artist " .

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  • Art & images for Easter crucifixion Images The Ecole Initiative Range of crucifixion image.

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  • To most of the eye-witnesses there that Friday, the crucifixion was the ultimate disproof of Jesus ' claims.

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  • The chancel window is of beautifully stained glass, on which are represented the four evangelists, and the crucifixion.

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  • Now his evil deed comes to full fruition on the eve of the crucifixion.

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  • The Gospel accounts are fairly sparse - they were writing for people who knew what crucifixion meant.

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  • And throughout the Crucifixion narratives, tho the suffering is quietly understated, it is equally clear.

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  • In 326 Constantine, after his conversion to Christianity, issued orders to the bishop Macarius to recover the site of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and the tomb in which his body was laid (see Sepulchre, Holy).

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  • Paul, converted to belief in Jesus as Messiah after the Crucifixion, was the first to perceive that for Christians Judaism had ceased to be binding.

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  • It is averred that he never handled a brush without fervent prayer and he wept when he painted a Crucifixion.

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  • This linked with the highly visceral nature of the crucifixion is reminiscent of much of Peter Greenaway 's work from around the same time.

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  • Of course, Judas is not a common name, but one worth mentioning since it was he, a former disciple, who betrayed Jesus to the guards that led to his crucifixion.

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  • All staff and volunteers believe in the conception, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the church believes that salvation and eternal life are found only through Him.

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  • As if including a crucifixion dance routine in her Rome concert performance was not enough to cause an uproar, Madonna invited the Pope to attend, thinking he would find her act beautiful and elegant.

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  • Christian crosses are typically a reference to Christ's crucifixion, and are worn to protect a person from harm.

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  • One of the most popular religious charm themes is the crucifixion of Christ, which has inspired a wide range of designs.

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  • The crossis a universal Christian icon that symbolizes the crucifixion and resurrection by Jesus, the Christ.

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  • Easter speeches for kids will typically cover the biblical events leading up to the crucifixion, death and subsequent resurrection, but they may also focus on the spring season.

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  • The crucifixion of Jesus occurred on a Friday.

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  • Next, the heart is pierced by a thorn or may be wrapped in a crown of thorns, symbolic of the crown forced on Christ at his crucifixion.

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  • Crosses are just that; two crossed planks that represent the original cross used in Christ's crucifixion.

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  • Peter is believed to have been the first Pope of the universal church, and also died from crucifixion.

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  • Some traditional Catholic cross tattoos rely on the crucifix, which depicts Jesus during his crucifixion.

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  • Shaped like an X rather than a T, St. Andrew's cross defies tradition much in the same manner as his crucifixion, which took place on an X shaped crucifix.

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  • It represents the crucifixion of Christ.

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  • This cross, sometimes called the Jerusalem cross, is made up of five different crosses, each symbolizing one of Christ's wounds during crucifixion.

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  • This symbolizes the church more than the crucifixion.

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  • Ask the children to sculpt their favorite Easter symbols while you read the story of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection to them.

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  • The caterpillar represents Jesus' life on earth, the cocoon is symbolic of Jesus' crucifixion and burial, and the butterfly represents His resurrection and ascension to Heaven.

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  • The queen interposed to prevent the execution of those who had counselled the crucifixion of the rebels and permitted them to withdraw with her younger son Aristobulus to the fortresses outside Jerusalem.

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  • Maria di Provenzano, a vast baroque building of some elegance, designed by Schifardini (1594) Sant' Agostino, rebuilt by Vanvitelli in 1755, containing a Crucifixion and Saints by Perugino, a Massacre of the Innocents by Matteo di Giovanni, the Coming of the Magi by Sodoma, and a St Anthony by Spagnoletto (?); the beautiful church of the Servites (15th century), which contains another Massacre of the Innocents by Matteo di Giovanni and other good examples of the Sienese school; San Francesco, designed by Agostino and Agnolo about 1326, and now restored, which once possessed many fine paintings by Duccio Buoninsegna, Lorenzetti, Sodoma and Beccafumi, some of which perished in the great fire of 1655; San Domenico, a fine 13th-century building with a single nave and transept, containing Sodoma's splendid fresco the Swoon of St Catherine, the Madonna of Guido da Siena, 1281, and a crucifix by Sano di Pietro.

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  • He maintained his ascendancy until about 515, when Oroetes, the Persian governor of Lydia, who had been reproached for his failure to reduce Samos by force, lured him to the mainland by false promises of gain and put him to death by crucifixion.

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  • The altar-piece is a triptych, the centre-piece representing the Crucifixion; beside the cross Luther is represented, with the open Bible in his hand, while the blood from the pierced side of the Saviour pours on to his head.

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  • She went with Jesus on the last journey to Jerusalem, witnessed the Crucifixion, followed to the burial, and returned to prepare spices.

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  • The Crucifixion was therefore on a Friday in some year between A.D.

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  • These four lines of inquiry have shown that the Crucifixion fell on Friday, Nisan 14 (rather than 15), in one of the six years 28-33 A.D.; and therefore, if it is possible to discover (i.) exactly which moon or month was reckoned each year as the moon or month of Nisan, and (ii.) exactly on what day that particular moon or month was reckoned as beginning, it will, of course, be possible to tell in which of these years Nisan 14 fell on a Friday.

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  • The earliest witness, indeed, who can be cited for a definite date for the crucifixion gave not 29, but 33 A.D.

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  • The Chronology of the Apostolic Age, The chronology of the New Testament outside the Gospels may be defined for the purposes of this article as that of the period between the Crucifixion in A.D.

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  • This reconstruction of its meaning seems to have been the peculiar revelation of the Lord to Paul, who viewed Christ's crucifixion and death as an atoning sacrifice, liberating by its grace mankind from bonds of sin which the law, far from snapping, only made more sensible and grievous.

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  • Spirito are two paintings by Luca Signorelli, the "Crucifixion" and the "Day of Pentecost," originally intended for a processional banner.

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  • Through his machinations the crucifixion took place, and Satan was the originator of the whole Orthodox community with its churches, vestments, ceremonies, sacraments and fasts, with its monks and priests.

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  • Beneath a street in the town is a curious example of a hermit's cave, excavated in the chalk, and containing rude carvings of the crucifixion and other sacred subjects.

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  • The reiterated reports of the actual existence of a wandering being, who retained in his memory the details of the crucifixion, show how the idea had fixed itself in popular imagination and found its way into the 19th-century collections of German legends.

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  • The source of all these reports of an ever-living witness of the crucifixion is probably Matthew xvi.

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  • As the kingdom had not come, it was assumed that there must be persons living who had been present at the crucifixion; the same reasoning is at the root of the Anglo-Israel belief.

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  • The origin of the custom of a yearly commemoration of the Crucifixion is somewhat obscure.

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  • In St Peter's are the famous altar-piece by Rubens, representing the Crucifixion of St Peter, several works by Lucas van Leyden, and some old German glass-paintings.

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  • The most noteworthy of its public buildings is the handsome Protestant Church, begun in the 14th century and finished in 1520, in the Gothic style, containing a beautiful cup-shaped font, cast by Meister Leonhardus in 1438, and a large mural painting of the Crucifixion by Johannes von Rosenau (1445).

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  • The attribution of the Crucifixion to the Jews appears in several 2nd-century documents; Justin actually uses the words "He was pierced by you" in his dialogue with Trypho the Jew.

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  • The Sepulchre and the Hill of the Crucifixion were lost to the Christian pilgrim; and, consequently, before the era of Constantine, the one holy site in the town of Jerusalem was the so-called Coenaculum, which received its name in later years.

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  • Historically it is of great value as showing how widely within twenty or twenty-five years of the Crucifixion a religion which proclaimed developed theological teaching as to " the Lord Jesus Christ " had spread in the Roman Empire.

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  • But the chief priests succeeded in making the people ask for Barabbas and demand the crucifixion of Jesus.

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  • Pilate fulfilled his pledge by giving them the man of their choice, and Jesus, whom he had vainly hoped to release on a satisfactory pretext, he now condemned to the shameful punishments of scourging and crucifixion; for the cross, as Jesus had foreseen, was the inevitable fate of a Jewish pretender to sovereignty.

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  • The account of the trial and the crucifixion differs considerably from the accounts given in the other Gospels.

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  • Marco (now converted into a national museum), a series of frescoes, beginning towards 1443; in the first cloister is the Crucifixion with St Dominic kneeling; and the same treatment recurs on a wall near the dormitory; in the chapterhouse is a third Crucifixion, with the Virgin swooning, a composition of twenty life-sized figures - the red background, which has a strange and harsh effect, is the misdoing of some restorer; an "Annunciation," the figures of about three-fourths of life-size, in a dormitory; in the adjoining passage, the "Virgin enthroned," with four saints; on the wall of a cell, the "Coronation of the Virgin," with Saints Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Benedict, Dominic, Francis and Peter Martyr; two Dominicans welcoming Jesus, habited as a pilgrim; an "Adoration of the Magi"; the "Marys at the Sepulchre."

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  • Within the church are the iron crown of Lombardy, supposed to have been beaten out of one of the nails used at the Crucifixion, and the treasury containing the relics of Theodelinda, comprising her crown, fan and comb of gold, and the golden hen and seven chickens, representing Lombardy and her seven provinces, and crosses, reliquaries, &c., of the Lombard and Gothic periods.

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  • As this story coincided with the birth (or crucifixion) of Christ it was thought to herald the end of the old world and the beginning of the new.

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  • The rebellion spread like lightning, principally in the central or purely Magyar provinces, where hundreds of manor-houses and castles were burnt and thousands of the gentry done to death by impalement, crucifixion and other unspeakable methods.

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  • The Gentile Christians, on the other hand, unfettered by Jewish traditions, identified the first day of the week with the Resurrection, and kept the preceding Friday as the commemoration of the crucifixion, irrespective of the day of the month.

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  • Early Christian tradition is unanimous on this side; either the 14th is mentioned, or the Crucifixion is made the antitype of the slaughter of the Paschal Lamb (and the Resurrection of the first fruits), in the following authorities anterior to A.D.

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  • The Crucifixion, then, should be placed rather on the 14th than on the r 5th of Nisan.

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