in biblical theology, spanning the entire Bible. God’s plan to redeem a people from death is a reversal of expected outcomes for those he saves. Therefore, the cross of Jesus Christ is the pivot point of a greater peripety that spans all of history. Because of our sin, we, like the Jews in exile in Persia, should expect only death and destruction. Our fate was reversed by the seemingly insignificant death of one man, Jesus of Nazareth. Dragging a cross through the streets to his death was not the