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The Crown and the Fire: Meditations on the Cross and the Life of the Spirit is unavailable, but you can change that!

Instead of the seven words that Jesus spoke from the cross, Tom Wright invites you to consider seven words that people spoke to the cross–people like Mary and the Roman centurion who witnessed the crucifixion, and Pontius Pilate, who helped to instigate it. The result is a powerful sequence of meditations that will move you to reassess your own response to Jesus’ death, his resurrection, and the...

Messiah: this is what happens to failed Messiahs! And the purpose of crucifying him between the two thieves was to say—That’s the sort of man he is! In fact, calling them ‘thieves’ as we normally do obscures the matter. The word in Greek is lestes—a word which the Jewish historian Josephus uses of revolutionary Jews who used force in the attempt to rid Palestine of Roman rule. There were many of them in Jesus’ day; a kind of holy brigand, so keen to see Israel’s God triumph in the world that they
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