According to a fictitious legend, Jesus Christ was impaled on a dogwood tree. Because of his compassion for the dogwood and so that it would no longer be used as an instrument of impalement, Jesus decreed that it should become a smaller tree and that its petals should bear the marks of the nailprints in his hands. This, says tradition, resulted in the rust-colored touches around the notches in the bracts. So prominent has this legend become that it is the only thing many people think of when they see the dogwood today. But, it should be noted that this is only fictitious tradition. The Bible says nothing of the sort. The Bible does not identify the type of tree used in his execution. Maybe because the type of tree is of little or no importance. What is important is what his sacrificial death means. His death is a ransom paid for our sinful condition brought on by the willful sin of our first human father, Adam. A search of several diverse translations and paraphrases of the Bible reveal no references to dogwood.
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Yes. Very few plants are nonvascular, but a dogwood is definitely vascular.
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Cornus Nuttallii can grow to 80 feet in the wild, but this is only one variety others only grow to about 10 - 12 feet.
Absolutely nothing. The Dogwood tree is not mentioned in the Bible.
The Bible does not indicate what kind of wood that the cross is made of. Furthermore, the cross could not have been made from a dogwood tree because dogwood trees do not grow in Israel.
yes dogwood is a tree
The state tree is the flowering dogwood.
No. Although the Legend of the Dogwood is a lovely story, the Bible does not identify the type of wood from which the Cross was made.
Dogwood is a type of tree.
-flowering dogwood. !
The scientific genus of the dogwood tree is cornus.
By its barkThe dogwood tree is all about what happened to CHRIST on the cross.
The Dogwood Tree Answer Davidia.
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Dogwood tree leaves.