Crucifixion

Faith Q&A › Metropolitan Youssef › Our Lord and the Faith

9 questions

• QIf Judas had not turned in the Lord Jesus Christ to the Pharisees would there be no Crucifixion or Holy Resurrection, and would we have been saved from sin?
• QThe Holy Gospel of St. Mark 15:34 seems to be repeated somewhere else as " My power, my power it has left me ." Was this in anything you've read?
• QWhen the Lord died on the Cross, what died? His Holy Body?
• QIs it true that death by crucifixion takes place over a lengthy period of forty days on the cross? If so, how come our Lord Jesus Christ died in three hours?
• QWhere were the nails dug; on the wrist or palm of our Lord Jesus Christ?
• QWho were the disciples present at Jesus Christ's crucifixion?
• Q"It was the third hour when they crucified him" (Mark 15:25). Does this not contradict what is known at our church that our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified in the sixth…
• QI have questions regarding the Crucifxion: Did Jesus spend 6 hours on the Cross? And is the timeline in the following website correct…
• QJesus was crucified in the middle of two others. Is there any significance or symbolism to this?

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