For Mark, this is the guts of the gospel: that we follow a suffering Christ,
a crucified criminal.
Not exact matches
There were two others with him,
criminals who were being led away to execution; and when they reached the place called The Skull, they
crucified him there, and the
criminals with him, one on his right, and the other on his left....
We still need to cast our lot with the vulnerable God who became the carpenter's son, Immanuel, who, to be responsible for what God had made ended up being
crucified by political and religious authorities like a
criminal.
One hundred Christs
crucified on crosses from Calvary to Krakow to that Carmelite convent could not begin to atone for the cruel and coldly calculated
criminal acts committed against our people by people raised as Christians.
As explained in the book of Matthew, Jesus, though sinless, was «numbered with the transgressors» and
crucified along with two
criminals.
I'm not sure if you are familiar with this story but when Christ was on the cross there were two
criminals being
crucified with Him... one mocked him and one asked for mercy in his final breaths... Christ told the latter that he would be in paradise.