#37. Taking Up Your Cross Daily (Luke 9:22-26) -- JesusWalk

#37. Taking Up Your Cross Daily (Luke 9:22-26) -- JesusWalk:

"The cross in Jesus' day was an instrument of torture and execution, pure and simple. There wasn't a figurative use of 'cross' as a 'burden' or 'trial' in those ways. Death on the cross was shameful, excruciating, and often protracted.

Did you notice this is the first use of Cross in the gospel? What prompted Jesus referencing the cross? Was there a crucifiction near-by? An old field of crosses from the last rebellion?

What would be the kind of shameful death today? AIDS? Suicide?

What so grusome? Leathal injection? The death Tom Fox faced at the hands of his torturers?