Word Finder - crucifixion

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An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.

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Rome used crucifixions as a deterrent, and standard for the 'vilest' crimes, such as slave rebellion.

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The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.

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An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.

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The suspects' hostile interrogation amounted to a public crucifixion.

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

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

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

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

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.

The usual form of sacrifice was crucifixion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fine interior The east window showing the crucifixion.

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

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

I marvel at thy voluntary crucifixion, O Compassionate One!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The crucifixion of Jesus occurred on a Friday.

It represents the crucifixion of Christ.

This symbolizes the church more than the crucifixion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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