2012暑期二学位圣经与西方文化第七次课.pptVIP

The Crucifixion The Roman soldiers led Jesus away and beat him up. They mocked him for claiming to be King of the Jews. They dressed him in a red robe, placed a crown of thorns on his head, and put a stick in his hand as a sceptre. The Gospel of John says that Jesus carried his own cross to the place of the Crucifixion. The Crucifixion According to the other Gospels, the soldiers made a man named Simon of Cyrene carry the cross. They nailed Jesus to the cross outside the city, on a hill called Golgotha (Calvary). On the cross they wrote the charge against Jesus: Jesus of Nazareth, King of th