Meditation on the Cross
I found it engrossing, enlightening and encouraging when I meditated upon the instances and contexts of the word CROSS within the lexicon of The Word. You surely will benefit from hearing directly from God’s Word without any interpretation from me. I have limited the quotes to those of significance, so if you want to see all the instances, I recommend the Bible Gateway (http://www.biblegateway.com) site. Just search for whatever term you are seeking. May God bless you this Good Friday with an understanding of His incredible gift! —AdL
“Also make CROSSbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.” Exodus 26:26
“All who CROSS over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the Lord.” Exodus 30:14
“I will die in this land; I will not CROSS the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.” Deuteronomy 4:22
“The Lord your God himself will CROSS over ahead of you.” Deuteronomy 31:3
“Your servant will CROSS over the Jordan with the king for a short distance, but why should the king reward me in this way?” Samuel 19:36
“You set a boundary they cannot CROSS; never again will they cover the earth.” Psalm 104:9
“Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might CROSS over?” Isaiah 51:10
“‘Should you not fear me?’ declares the Lord. ‘Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot CROSS. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot CROSS it.’” Jeremiah 5:22
“This is what the Lord says: ‘Stand at the CROSSroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.’” Jeremiah 6:16
“Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their CROSS daily and follow me.’” Luke 9:23
“And whoever does not carry their CROSS and follow me cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:27
“‘Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has CROSSed over from death to life.’” John 5:24
“Carrying his own CROSS, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).” John 19:17
“Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the CROSS. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.” John 19:19
“Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the CROSSes during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.” John 19:31
“This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the CROSS.” Acts 2:23
“The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a CROSS.” Acts 5:30
“After Herod had a thorough search made for him [Peter] and did not find him, he CROSS-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed.” Acts 12:19
“When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the CROSS and laid him in a tomb.” Acts 13:29
“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the CROSS of Christ be emptied of its power.” 1 Corinthians 1:17
“For the message of the CROSS is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Corinthians 1:18
“May I never boast except in the CROSS of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Galatians 6:14
“His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the CROSS, by which he put to death their hostility.” Ephesians 2:15-16
“And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a CROSS!” Philippians 2:8
“For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the CROSS of Christ.” Philippians 3:18
“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the CROSS.” Colossians 1:19-20
“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the CROSS.” Colossians 2:15
“For the joy set before him he endured the CROSS, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2
“‘He himself bore our sins’ in his body on the CROSS, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; ‘by his wounds you have been healed.’” 1 Peter 2:24