https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/rss/ Biblical answers to questions about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Copyright https://www.christianity.com 2026, Christianity.com Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:23:58 -0400 https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/who-killed-jesus.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/who-killed-jesus.html Clarence L. Haynes Jr. https://www.christianity.com/author/clarence-l-haynes-jr/ We know Jesus died, and we know it was a terrible event that led to a surprise. So who was responsible for his death? Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/did-jesus-descend-into-hell.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/did-jesus-descend-into-hell.html Christianity.com Editorial Staff https://www.christianity.com/author/christianitycom-editorial-staff/ In traditional Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell, or "the descent of Christ into Hell" or Hades, is the saving act of Christ to the souls in Hades between His crucifixion and resurrection. Wed, 06 Apr 2022 12:45:00 -0400 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/is-via-dolorosa-in-the-bible.html https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/is-via-dolorosa-in-the-bible.html Lisa Loraine Baker https://www.christianity.com/author/lisa-loraine-baker/ Is the Via Dolorosa in the Bible or built on later legends? To answer this question properly, we need to look at the route, its history, and its sources. Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:25:00 -0500 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/jesus/early-church-history/the-apostle-paul/crucified-with-christ.html https://www.christianity.com/jesus/early-church-history/the-apostle-paul/crucified-with-christ.html John Barnett https://www.christianity.com/author/john-barnett/ For the rest of our lives we are to be seeking to know more completely and more deeply all that God did in that six hour period of time when Christ was crucified, and we were with Him by the grace of God. Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:55:00 -0400 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/what-is-the-power-in-the-blood-of-christ.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/what-is-the-power-in-the-blood-of-christ.html Christianity.com Editorial Staff https://www.christianity.com/author/christianitycom-editorial-staff/ What is the meaning and importance of the blood of Jesus Christ? How does Christ's blood relate to the Old Testament prophecies? Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0500 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/6-ways-jesus-experienced-hell-when-he-was-on-the-cross.html https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/6-ways-jesus-experienced-hell-when-he-was-on-the-cross.html Colin Smith https://www.christianity.com/author/colin-smith/ Artists and poets have speculated over the centuries about hell (consider Dante’s “Inferno”), but the clearest revelation of hell is given at the cross. Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:12:01 -0400 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/jesus/is-jesus-god/old-testament-prophecies/what-s-important-about-jesus-not-breaking-any-bones.html https://www.christianity.com/jesus/is-jesus-god/old-testament-prophecies/what-s-important-about-jesus-not-breaking-any-bones.html When God gave Moses and Aaron the rules for the Passover, some might have sounded unconventional—for example, the clear prohibition against breaking any bones of the lamb that was sacrificed and eaten by each household. Why did God insist on this? Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:28:20 -0400 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/what-was-lacking-in-christ-s-suffering.html https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/what-was-lacking-in-christ-s-suffering.html Ray Pritchard https://www.christianity.com/author/ray-pritchard/ Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:35:22 -0500 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/jesus-became-a-curse-for-us.html https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/jesus-became-a-curse-for-us.html Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:21:28 -0400 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/what-do-muslims-have-to-say-about-the-cross.html https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/the-crucifixion/what-do-muslims-have-to-say-about-the-cross.html Thabiti Anyabwile https://www.christianity.com/author/thabiti-anyabwile/ (Transcript of the video, edited for readability)It may be that as a Christian, you're talking to your Muslim neighbor and friend and you get to the issue of the cross, the crucifixion and the resurrection. It's one of the things that Muslims will deny and they'll deny it on the basis on a couple basics.One, you sometimes hear Muslims say that such treatment is beneath a prophet of God, that no way would allow one of his prophets to suffer in that way. I think that just betrays a fundamental lack of knowledge about the prophets as you read them in the scripture. Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, imprisoned and mistreated. Isaiah and others struggling. And boy, Moses had his battles too. The Lord gives him victory, but it's the Lord who doesn't allow him into the Promised Land. And so I think that's about the role of prophets in a way that just historically isn't accurate. That's important to establish because Jesus is not only a prophet, but he's also our sacrifice. It's God who sends Jesus into the world as a sacrificial lamb to die in our place, and it's by that very act, Romans 3, tells us that God is not only the justifier of sinners, but is just as well.Far from the cross being somehow a tragic misunderstanding of how prophets are treated or something that many Muslims just deny happened altogether, or claim that Judas was actually crucified and made to look like Jesus and Jesus went on to live. There's no evidence for those positions. Far from that. The Bible is actually telling us that this is how the righteousness of God is vindicated. God upholds his own righteousness by giving his son as a sacrifice and by judging our sins in him, so that sins that before then had gone unpunished are finally satisfied in Christ. So that his mercy at the same time is being demonstrated on the cross as sinners are freed from his sin, forgiven and cleansed before God.So it is the cross and the sacrifice of Jesus that both is the justification, becomes the grounds of justification and righteousness for the sinner, and for a holy God who cannot leave sins unpunished. Islam cannot answer that. How it is that God can both forgive sins and forgive the sinner and at the same time punish sin. Only the cross answers that. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:48:46 -0400 2026-03-31T03:23:58-04:00