The Death of Jesus
with all references
Well this passage covers Jesus dying on the cross, and what He said and what happened. From this we know the following happened:
He cried out to God. He was offered a drink. He died. The temple curtain split in two. The significance of this is that it symbolises how the curtain separated the inner sanctuary of the temple where only the priests were allowed to go from everyone else. His death splitting it in two shows that we now have direct access to God through Him and His death rather than only through a priest. This kinda makes the whole Roman Catholic confession thing redundant - you don't need a priest to confess or be made clean, you can go directly to God yourself in prayer. The Roman soldiers there suddenly realise they made a big whoopsy in killing the Son of God. The women in His life watched it all happen. I am unsure as to why this is specifically mentioned - maybe it's implying that most of the apostles didn't dare turn up for fear of association, maybe it's showing the importance of women in christian society, or maybe it's trying to show that the men weren't making this al up and that those women who witnessed His resurrection also witnessed His death.
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