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do you do There were many criminals crucified by Roman authorities.

So what sets apart the death of Jesus from any of the others? What made this the pivotal event in human history?

Today on Truth for Life, Alistairbegg walks us through three significant events that marked Jesus crucifixion.

I invite you to take your vibles and we'll turn again to the portion of

scripture that was read in Luke chapter 23. God our father we thank you for the

generous welcome that is extended to us as the arms of Christ reach out and

establish in this amazing scene that now we consider the gravity of our

predicament and the immensity of your love. We pray that you will help us as we study the Bible, that

we might understand it and in understanding it we may live in the light of it for we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

Well we're at the 44th verse of Luke chapter 23. Here in a matter of just a few words Luke

describes for us the most famous and certainly the most significant death in all of human history.

And he does so with a purposeful reticence and with a perfect restraint. We've already seen back in verse 33 that he took only three

words in Greek to describe the crucifixion and there they crucified him. That's all that said. And once again in the

closing moments of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ in the actual description of his death

there is absolutely no attempt to stir up emotion. There is no agenda apparently to make one's skin crawl.

There are scenes that would do that for us and indeed this would be one of them,

but the absence of description is quite

striking I've been involved in a number of dialogues concerning this issue because of

the position that I have taken regarding the reticence of the gospel writers to describe for as the physicality of suffering.

And one of the lines of argument has been, well, of course, everybody knew that crucifixion went down a certain road, and we don't,

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