![]() The Messiah was expected to be powerful and glorious. When asked, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed ?" Jesus said, "I am." It was an almost incredible claim. ![]() The passion of Jesus Christ was unique because he was one of a kind. But I would not want to minimize the horrors of others who died gruesomely. The uniqueness is not necessarily in the length or intensity of the physical pain. ![]() The Christian answer is that the passion of Jesus Christ was absolutely unique, and his resurrection from the dead three days later was an act of God to vindicate what his death achieved. How could it be that a convicted, condemned, executed pretender to the throne of Rome would unleash in the next three centuries a power to suffer and to love that shaped the empire? If Christians were not so familiar with these things because of 2000 years of tradition and liturgy, they might feel how utterly unlikely it was that this death would be the basis of a world-transforming faith. ![]()
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