Centuries before Jesus was born, Jewish prophets had foretold his coming. During Holy Week, many of the prophecies made about ...

Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right hand and one on the ... let him come down now from the Cross and we will believe in him". Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

We should probably translate the only two passages in the Gospels that mention of the crucified Jesus (Lk 24, Jn 20) not as 'hands', but with Hesiod, Rufus Medicus, and others as 'arms'.

“A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him” (Lk 23:27).

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

Jesus' legs are not broken, like those of the two men crucified with him ... But your body is placed in good hands and wrapped in a white shroud (Mt 27:59). Faith has not completely died; the ...

Jesus apparently ... of crucifixion. In all probability the feet were nailed either directly through the ankles or through the heel bone to the lower post of the cross. The hands or the arms ...

For the 39th year parishioners at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church will hold a live Stations of the Cross on Sunday, April 13, at 7p.m. The group, though, held a dress rehearsal Tuesday night in ...

Get yourself down from there and we’ll believe ... and hand over this Jesus. Hand him over to be crucified that is. It didn’t seem right… I was on duty that day - and it’s one I’ve ...

As we approach the celebration of Easter, it is time once again to take a walk around that old rugged cross. Remembering the ...

The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his ...