Definitions

1. Crucifixion is an ancient method of execution, where the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead.
2. Crucifixion is a particularly cruel punishment, almost always producing agonizing death.
3. Crucifixion was used for slaves, rebels, pirates and especially-despised enemies and criminals.
4. Crucifixion was abolished for reasons of Christian piety, but was replaced with hanging, to show there was Roman law and justice.
5. Crucifixion was originally a form of execution first used by Carthage.

Images

1. This psychosis is subconsciously cultured and maintained by the voodoo ritual of the crucifixion of images of 'Jesus the Nazarene King of the Jews'.
2. Gascoyne was a surrealist and his poem mixes images from a Roman crucifixion with images under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

Philosophy

1. He once said of the Crucifixion, 'If I had been there with my Franks, I would have avenged His wrong', proving that he didn't fully grasp the new philosophy.

Crown

1. In this mock crucifixion, Raven tied Sandman to a cross and placed a crown of barbed wire on Sandman's head.

Story

1. The story tells of Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton), a Roman tribune sent to Palestine who oversees the crucifixion of Christ.
2. Bach’s passions, although stylistically similar to his cantatas, are larger works that tell the story of Christ’s crucifixion.

Passion

1. By this rite, the church stresses on her pre-occupation with the passion and crucifixion of Christ only.

Part

1. Brian Cohen (played by Graham Chapman) has been sentenced to death by crucifixion for his part in a kidnap plot.

Disciples

1. An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.
2. Jesus has already, for eleven years after the crucifixion, been instructing his disciples, men and women, in the Gnosis.

Man

1. We can not ponder on His Humanity without thinking about His conception, birth, teaching, interaction with man, crucifixion and death.

Nails

1. Location of the nails Religious depictions of the crucifixion of Jesus typically show him supported by nails through the palms.

Punishment

1. Punishment by crucifixion was widely employed in ancient times.

Peter

1. Here is where the Christian Mason assumes the role of Peter on the night of the crucifixion.
2. At that time Paul and Peter were condemned to death, the former being beheaded with a sword, while Peter suffered crucifixion.

Mary

1. He preached a philosophy which made the mysteries of the virginity of Mary, of the crucifixion and the mass, meaningless.

Jerusalem

1. After crucifixion, she fled from Jerusalem with the help of friends and sailed to what is currently known as France.
2. A north-to-south ridge of hills east of Jerusalem where Jesus was betrayed on the night before His crucifixion.

Nero

1. It was here that St. Peter was imprisoned by Nero before his crucifixion in the year 67.

People

1. It was, however, possible to survive crucifixion, and there are records of people who did.

Execution

1. In Carthage, crucifixion was an established mode of execution, which could even be imposed on a general for suffering a major defeat.

Pirates

1. As soon as he was ransomed, he organized a naval force, captured the pirates and their stronghold and put them to death by crucifixion.

Painting

1. An excellent specimen of his style is a painting of the Crucifixion,[ 1] Aertsen was a member of Antwerp's equivalent of the Academy of St Luke.

Exhibiting

1. Under ancient Roman penal practice, crucifixion was not only a means of execution, but also a means of exhibiting the criminal’s low social status.

Anti-Semitism

1. Crucifixion of Jesus: an unusual subject for a Jewish painter, and likely a response to the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany in the late 1930s.
2. The Gospel’s treatment of the role of the Jewish authorities in the Crucifixion has given rise to allegations of anti-Semitism.

Tomb

1. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem commemorated the hill of crucifixion and the tomb of Christ's burial and was visited by Pilgrims.

Common Practice

1. It was common practice among the Romans to scourge the prisoner and to require him to carry his cross to the place of crucifixion.
2. It's basically way too similar to the world as we know it, except for the fact that slavery and crucifixion are still common practice.

Pope Benedict Xvi

1. The pope chooses the image on the outside: under Pope Benedict XVI it is a modern depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus, with Mary and John to each side.

Standard Method

1. Christians did not wear crosses or hang them on their walls until after crucifixion was no longer the standard method of capital punishment.

Jesus Christ

1. A religious episode based on the via-crucis events of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
2. Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, popularly known simply as Tiberius, was the Roman emperor at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
3. The Friday fast is done in commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday.

Jews

1. The Poles were also passionately devoted to the Catholic religion which at that time taught them that the Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
2. Many Jews feel that the church's views on Jewish responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus are anti-Semitic.
3. Unexpurgated editions of the Talmud confirm, in fact, the hate of the Jews for Christ and their role in his crucifixion.

Last Supper

1. This final meal is often called the "Last Supper", a term later given to the Jewish Passover Seder that Jesus hosted just before his crucifixion.

Reenactment

1. Jews were falsely accused of torturing consecrated host wafers in a reenactment of the Crucifixion; this accusation was known as host desecration.

Medical Aspects

1. Crucifixion and Shroud Studies - Studies of the medical aspects of crucifixion presented by Dr. Frederick Zugibe, a forensic pathologist.

Holy Lance

1. In Christian mythology the Holy Lance is the lance used at the Crucifixion, which was later identified with a relic or relics that survive.
2. Also called the Holy Lance, this spear was believed to have been the weapon used to pierce the side of Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion.

Eastern Orthodox Churches

1. It is primarily used in the Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox Churches and emphasizes Christ's sacrifice— his death by crucifixion.

Golgotha

1. The Via Dolorosa, or way of suffering, is the traditional route to Golgotha, the place of crucifixion, and is an important pilgrimage.

Pilate

1. Fort Antonia was also called the Roman Praetorium and it was the place where Pilate sentenced Jesus to crucifixion.
2. The Christian account says that Pilate disagreed with the Sanhedrin's decision, and found no fault — but that the crowd demanded crucifixion.
3. Specific roles (Pilate, Peter, etc.) are assigned to different persons, and the congregation plays the part of the crowd assenting to the crucifixion.

Nazareth

1. The story of Jesus of Nazareth (played by Max Von Sydow), from his humble birth to his crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

Apostles

1. This imagination was given by Christ Jesus to his Apostles the night before the Crucifixion.

Life

1. The Dutch writer Simon Vestdijk wrote a novel (1938) about the life of Pilate after the crucifixion: De nadagen van Pilatus (The last days of Pilate).

Meditating

1. This year, they should also be meditating on another crucifixion: that of a 14-year-old boy, nailed to a cross by Islamists in Iraq.

Hanging

1. The ancient Roman capital punishment: not hanging, not crucifixion, but tying you to a tree and beating you to death.
2. It was, however, possible to survive crucifixion, and there are records of people who did (as with hanging in the West).

Time

1. In this, the time traveller is a disturbed individual with a tendency to religious mania, who journeys back to the time of Jesus to view the crucifixion.
2. With Jesus commending Mary into the care of John the Apostle during his crucifixion, it is likely that Joseph had died by the time of Jesus' ministry.
3. She will experience what Ship calls the Jesus Incident: she has been thrown back in time so she can experience the Crucifixion of Christ at Golgotha.

Sanhedrin

1. The Christian accounts of the Sanhedrin, and role the council played in the crucifixion of Jesus, is a sensitive issue.

First

1. As a painter of biblical and allegorical subjects, he at first modeled his style closely on Rembrandt's, as, for example, in his Crucifixion (1643).

Christians

1. Christians continued to observe the seventh day as holy for centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus.
2. But most Christians believe that Jesus' death by crucifixion was the perfect sacrifice to reconcile humanity with God and save them from their sins.
3. Good Friday follows the next day, on which Christians remember His crucifixion and burial.

Josephus

1. Gamla was captured in 67; according to Josephus, its inhabitants committed mass suicide, preferring it to crucifixion and slavery.

Nisan

1. March 27th relates to Nisan 13, then, in a manner appropriate to the prophet's own frame of reference - it is the day before the crucifixion.

Passover

1. Polycarp and his Church of Smyrna celebrated the crucifixion on the fourteenth day of Nisan, which coincides with Pesach or Passover.

Romans

1. God arranged beforehand that the Old Testament would be copied by the very people who turned the Saviour over to the Romans for crucifixion.
2. This was in, the theory goes, part of the tendency to shift the blame for the Crucifixion towards the Jews and away from the Romans.
3. After the crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans in 33 CE, the Knanaya intensified their struggle against the Roman rule.

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