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The authors of the Bible routinely mentioned manners and customs from the ancient world, fully intending that the Lord would change readers with these images. But modern readers often miss the full meaning of biblical imagery due to the distance in time and experience between the world of today and the world of the Bible. This fully illustrated guide aims to restore clarity and vitality to these...

to Jerusalem (Matt. 20:17–19; 26:1–2; Luke 24:7). And in the reports of Jesus’s passing, the word crucify is spoken by a variety of witnesses with widely ranging interests, including Pilate, the hostile crowd, Jewish leaders, an angel, the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and the narrator (Matt. 27:22–23, 26, 31, 35; 28:5; Mark 15:13–15, 20, 24–25, 27; 16:6; Luke 23:21, 33; 24:20; John 19:6, 10, 15–16, 18, 20, 23, 41). The variety of reporters and the repetition of the term leave us certain of the
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