What is the meaning of the cross?

If you looked at Jesus on the cross you saw a man in a Lloyd cloth and you would see skin and flesh and bones and hair,

but you wouldn't see this package of human sin wrapped up and placed upon his pie.

It was invisible.

The Cross of Jesus Christ involves a historical event where a man was convicted of a crime

against the Roman government and he was sentenced to death by crucifixion.

And the story tells us and describes the environment, the location, the characters that were involved, the method of death that

was employed, and even the words of Jesus that he spoke from the cross. And not only do we get the information and the

details that describe the event as it took place, but we even get in the gospel record some people's interpretation of the meaning of the event.

For example, Caiaphus said,

it is expedient for the nation that this man be put to death.

And so from his perspective, we learned that the execution of Jesus was done out of political

expediency to get the heat of the Romans off the Jewish

Sanhedron. And let's quiet down the people will sacrifice this itinerate

preacher.

We see Pilots' statement where he cleanses his hands and he says, I find no fault in this man.

And he has an interpretation of his own political expedience, or we hear the testimony of the

centurion at the foot of the cross who said surely

this man was the son of God.

What was going on here?

Was it simply an event of a poor misguided Jewish rabble rouser who was put to death through some political chicanery that took place in Palestine 2,000

years ago.

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