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Passion of Christ

  1. Lesson One
    From Triumphal Entry to Criminal’s Arrest (Luke 19–23)
    21 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  2. Lesson Two
    Death of the Messiah: Crucifixion and Burial (Matt 27, Mark 14:1–15:20, Luke 23, John 19)
    24 Activities
  3. Lesson three
    Suffering Messiah (Psalm 22, Is 53, Zech 1–13)
    19 Activities
  4. Lesson Four
    Sacrifice and Passover (Mark 14:1–26, Luke 22:1–46, John 13–14)
    14 Activities
  5. Lesson Five
    Resurrection and Witnesses (Ezek 37:1-14, 47:1-12, Matt 28, John 16, 20)
    20 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse.
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 (NIV)

In accordance with this passage from Deuteronomy, Jews considered anyone that hangs on a tree is cursed. This connected to concerns of purity but is also associated with the idea of shame. Jesus on the cross, among many other things, is a naked body in public. Ever since the Garden of Eden, nakedness and shame have gone together. Hanging a body in public is how a person is displayed as a symbol of their curse before God, but then they’re brought down. They’re brought in. They’re not supposed to be left out.