There are a number of sayings of Jesus from the cross, and most of them are written in the Gospel of John, chapter 19, if you care to read them.
It was made of wood.
Jesus is God so he speaks and has spoken as God. But Confucius was a man so his sayings, though wise, are a man's sayings.
It was made of thorns.
Jesus was crucified on a Roman cross, not a tree, but undoubtedly made of wood. The reference to being hung on a tree relates to the fact that the cross was made of wood.
To remind them of the sacrifice that Christ made for mankind. There is a misconception that His death on the cross constituted the atonement, when in fact the atonement was made in the garden of Gethsemane.
On good Friday Jesus was made fun of and crucified. The people wanted to kill Jesus so they nailed him to a cross. They whipped Jesus and made him carry his cross to the hill of Golgotha.There he was crucified.
A:I am not sure how many is "many," but some respected scholars have noted parallels between Paul's writings, especially 1 Corinthians and Romans, and Mark's Gospel. The reason for believing that Paul could have been Mark's source is that when these parallel sayings are found, Paul does not attribute them to Jesus but writes them as his own sayings. Had he attributed some of these sayings to Jesus, we could say that Paul and 'Mark' relied on a common source that reported the things Jesus actually said.Paul's epistles were far from the only source Mark uses for the sayings of Jesus. For example, the last words of Jesus on the cross (Mark 15:34) were from Psalm 22:1.
It would be more correct to say that Jesus died on a tree. He died on a cross.
Because back then the people who were being crucified were made to carry there own cross as punishment and because i told him to
This information is not given in the Bible. No mention is made of the weight of the cross, in any units.
The primary source for the events and sayings of Jesus Christ is found in the Bible.
The cross without Jesus on it signifies that He is risen & no longer on the cross..Jesus is alive.