Cross

Cross-examination is invoked here as God's legal challenge to the nations — He dares every coastland and kingdom to step forward, present their evidence, and defend their gods against His proven track record of controlling history.

The Cross is named as the climactic moment where the Servant's trajectory from despised to glorified reaches its peak — the rejection described in verse 7 finds its most complete fulfillment at Calvary.

The Cross is named as the destination this chapter points toward — Isaiah 53 is framed as the essential starting point for understanding why Jesus had to die the way he did.

The cross is invoked here as the ultimate fulfillment of what the altar-coal scene enacts — Isaiah's cleansing through sacrificial fire is a preview of the definitive atonement Jesus would accomplish.

The Cross is the specific historical event that unlocks the full meaning of this psalm, as Jesus quoted its opening line while hanging on it, revealing the entire poem as a messianic prophecy being fulfilled in real time.

The Cross appears here as a cultural reference point, illustrating how deeply Psalm 23 has embedded itself in Christian tradition alongside other iconic symbols of the faith.

The cross is the moment Jesus quoted verse 5 of this psalm — "Into Your hands I commit my spirit" — making David's personal prayer of trust the last words of the Son of God.

The Cross is invoked because the sour wine offered to the thirsty, abandoned David is an exact parallel to what Roman soldiers handed Jesus during His crucifixion, connecting David's suffering to Christ's.

The cross is the culminating act of the Christ Hymn — the one who created and sustains all things willingly submitted to crucifixion to make peace between God and everything He made.

The cross is the pivotal event of the chapter — Paul reframes it not as defeat but as the moment Jesus cancelled every accusation, annihilated the debt, and publicly routed hostile spiritual powers.

The Cross is cited here as the instrument through which reconciliation was achieved, grounding the chapter's call to new life in the concrete historical event that made it possible.

The cross is invoked here as the antidote to celebrity pastor culture — Paul argues that dressing up the Gospel in impressive rhetoric drains power from the very message the cross embodies.

The cross is the implied mechanism behind 'washed, sanctified, justified' — the transformation Paul describes in verse 11 is grounded in what Christ accomplished through his death and resurrection.

Used colloquially here to mean 'cross the line' or enter — God declares that Sennacherib will not cross into Jerusalem, drawing a divine boundary that the world's most powerful army cannot breach.

Cross here refers to Elisha crossing the Jordan on dry ground — the act that the watching prophets interpret as proof that the spirit of Elijah now rests upon him.

The Cross is invoked here as the theological fulfillment of God's one-sided covenant walk — centuries later, when humanity broke their end, Jesus absorbed the consequences God had sworn to bear alone.

The Cross is foreshadowed in God's animal sacrifice to clothe Adam and Eve — the pattern of substitutionary death covering human shame runs all the way to Calvary.

The Cross appears here as the defining moment of Jesus' endurance — the author points to it as proof that Jesus pushed through maximum suffering without quitting, making any lesser trial endurable for believers.

The Cross is referenced as the unrepeatable event that apostasy treats with contempt — to walk away is to act as if Christ's death meant nothing.

The word 'cross' is used here colloquially to mean 'enter the mind' — specifically to emphasize that child sacrifice was so utterly alien to God's nature that it never even occurred to Him, underscoring the depth of Judah's distortion of worship.

Cross here means to physically cross over into Ammonite territory — Ishmael is attempting to transport Judah's surviving population across the border as hostages, moving them entirely outside the land God told them to stay in.

Cross here refers to the physical act of crossing the Jordan River — Israel is three days away from stepping across this boundary into the Promised Land after four decades of wilderness wandering.

The word 'cross' appears here in 'cross-country' as an ironic wink — the Gibeonites fabricate an epic journey to make their deception believable, invoking the idea of distance and sacrifice.

The cross is the endpoint of the theological trajectory begun here — Jesus's sacrificial blood fulfills the same atoning logic that Leviticus 17 establishes as sacred and non-negotiable.

Crossing the line is invoked here to frame the chapter's central tension — the contrast between everyday ritual faithfulness and the catastrophic moment when someone violates the sanctity of God's name.

The cross looms over this entire scene — it's the 'cup' Jesus is asking the Father to take away, and His willingness to walk toward it anyway is the hinge point of human history.

The cross is invoked here as a metaphor for total self-surrender before it becomes a literal reality — Jesus calls followers to embrace the posture of one walking to their own execution.

The cross is identified here as the fulfillment of the bronze serpent typology — just as looking up at the serpent brought physical life to bitten Israelites, looking to Jesus on the cross brings eternal life.

Cross here refers to Israel's crossing of the Jordan River — the physical act of entering Canaan that will trigger the immediate need for these refuge cities to be designated.

Used here metaphorically to describe completing God's mission — David is content that someone else will finish the work, paralleling how the Cross represents ultimate completion of God's redemptive plan.

The cross appears here as one of the two bookend events — along with baptism — that confirm Jesus' authentic divine identity from the start of His ministry to its culmination in death.

The Cross is flagged in the intro as the destination of the chapter — Peter's suffering passage in vv. 18–25 is described as one of the most powerful treatments of Christ's crucifixion in the entire New Testament.

Cross appears here as David literally crosses into enemy territory — a desperate geographical move that sets up the most dangerous scene of the chapter.

The Cross appears here as Paul's evidence that God's power works through weakness — Jesus's crucifixion looked like failure to the world, but it was the very moment of ultimate divine action.

The Cross is referenced here as the distant horizon this chapter points toward — David's costly offering at the threshing floor foreshadows the ultimate sacrifice made at Calvary.

Cross is used here in its ordinary sense of transgressing a boundary — specifically the moral line Moab crossed by desecrating human remains, an act God treats as a prosecutable offense.

Cross here means to ford or traverse the river — the water has grown so deep and wide in under a mile that it literally cannot be crossed, signaling that this is no natural watercourse.

The Cross is referenced as the interpretive lens from which Elihu's mediator-ransom-restoration sequence reads as prophetic preview — this side of history, the pattern he describes maps onto what Jesus accomplished at Calvary.

Crossing the Jordan here is a matter of life and death — the fords are the only escape route for fleeing Ephraimites, now controlled by Gileadite forces running the pronunciation checkpoint.

The cross is the defining loyalty marker in this passage — those who live as its enemies have chosen comfort and appetite over the way of self-giving sacrifice that the cross represents.