The Crucifixion of Jesus
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Human suffering also affects God's heart because the earth and all it
contains are His creation. Moreover, God created man according to His
own image (Genesis 1:26-27). God was willing to come down to the earth
in the form of a man, in Jesus Christ, who experienced human suffering.
The depth of Jesus' suffering was that He had to be a sacrifice, and
also to experience the torture of his body hanging on the cross to die.
At that time God not only showed His "solidarity" with humans
and what they experience, but also did His work in saving people by
His wounds and the drops of His blood, cleansing human sin.
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by Yu Jiade, China
Look,
your king is coming to you! He is humble and rides on a donkey and
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
(Mat. 21:5)
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"Jesus chose to enter Jerusalem riding
on a donkey a colt. There is no doubt it was a deliberate symbol.
Was it to poke fun at the pretentions of the powerful? Would they
be expecting the Messiah to ride a white horse into the city?
But it is the donkey that speaks most powerfully
of the ministry of Jesus. He always seemed to choose the weak and
the lowly as the symbols of his calling. The lamb and the sheep,
the dove and the donkey are all weak and powerless creatures.
By his action, Jesus was saying something
about power and powerlessness. The humility of his action stands
in contrast to the crowd's expectation of him as a conqueror. In
the entry to Jerusalem, God is identified with the poor rather than
the rich, with the humble against the proud, with those who love
against those who hate, with peace against war. All the virtues
which we tend to see as weak are the ones which he claims to be
strong. He gives up power and in his powerlessness shows the greater
strength.
In many Bible commentaries, this event is
described as "the triumphal entry". This statement is
a complete misnomer. It arose in medieval times when the church
was obsessed with temporal power.
The truth is lost if we associate this event
with triumphalism. Jesus entered Jerusalem with all the symbols
of simple humility. His actions were a mockery of the things the
world associates with power.
But it is in his humility that real strength
resides. In his weakness is our strength."
-Ron O'Grady, Aotearoa/New Zealand, from
The Bible Through Asian Eyes.
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In
this page we offer the art works of some Asian Christian artists which
fit the theme about Crucifixion of Jesus. These selected images are
about Palm Sunday, the Lord Supper / Jesus washing his disciples' feet,
the betrayal of Jesus and at the bottom page we offer images which shows
about Jesus before the Pilate and Jesus on the cross.
This
time we present the art works of: Yu Jiade - China,
He Qi - China, Ding Fang - China, Wang Wei-zhong - China, Noehoni Harsono
- Indonesia, Jyoti Sahi - India, Alphonso Doss - India, Anthony Doss
- India, Tanaka Tadao - Japan, Sadao Watanabe - Japan, Kim Bu In - Korea,
Kim Soo Jung - Korea, Nalini Jayasuriya - Sri Lanka and John Coburn
- Australia.
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Jesus
knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had
come from God and was going to God. So he rose from the table, took
off his outer garment, and tied a towel round his waist. Then he pored
some water into the basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and
dry the with the towel round his waist. He came to Simon Peter, who
said to him, "Are you going to wash my feet Lord?"
Jesus answered him, "You do not understand now what I am doing,
but you will understand later" (John 13:3-7)
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Jesus
was still speaking when Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived.
With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs and sent by the
chief priests and the elders...
Judas went straight to Jesus and said, "Peace be with you, Teacher,"
and kissed him.
Jesus answered, "Be quick about it, friend!" (Matt. 26:47,
49, 50)
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Judas,
the disciple of Christ
Judas, the betrayer of Christ
Judas
who repented for his sin
Judas who paid for his sin with his own life.
Can
we ever understand or know
The violence and passion of this man-
The violence of his intention
And the passion of his love?
Perhaps,
more than any other
He recognized Jesus as the Messiah;
If he did
How could he believe
The Messiah could die?
Can
we ever understand or know
Why Judas was Judas?
-Nalini Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka
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They
took Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which means "The Place of
the Skull." There they tried to give him wine mixed with a drug
called myrrh, but Jesus would not drink it. Then they crucified him
and divided his clothes among themselves, throwing dice to see who would
get which piece of clothing. It was nine o'clock in the morning when
they crucified him. (Mark 15:22-25)
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