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The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. [1] [2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans, [1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the 21st century. [3]
Jesus prayed to be rescued from death on the cross. [23] Pilate, having sympathy for Jesus, secretly devised to save him by setting his Crucifixion shortly before Sabbath day. The Gospel of John records that Nicodemus brought myrrh and aloes. [24] These healing plants, particularly aloe plants, are considered medicinal and applied to wounds.
Click through to see depictions of Jesus throughout history: The discovery came after researchers evaluated drawings found in various archaeological sites in Israel.
The fifth station refers to the biblical episode in which Simon of Cyrene takes Jesus' cross, and carries it for him. [27] This narrative is included in the three Synoptic Gospels . [ 28 ] The current traditional site for the station is located at the east end of the western fraction of the Via Dolorosa , adjacent to the Chapel of Simon of ...
: Marie-Alexandrine de Schietere née De Fraula, Bruges 9 May 1781: sale of the collection of Douariere de Philippe Charles de Schietere Marie-Alexandrine de Fraula at J. Garemyn, Bruges, lot no. 68, for 39-0 francs (as ‘Un très-beau Tableau d'une forme Centrée par le haut, le Panneau d'une seule piece, réprésentant Jesus Christ attaché à la Croix.
Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the Cross; Veronica wipes the face of Jesus; Jesus falls for the second time; Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem; Jesus falls for the third time; Jesus is stripped of his garments (sometimes called the "Division of Robes") Jesus is nailed to the Cross; Jesus dies on the Cross; Jesus is taken down from the Cross
Christ on the Cross is a 1631 oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt, now in the Église Saint-Vincent in the French town of Le Mas-d'Agenais, Lot-et-Garonne. The inventory of Catharina Elisabeth Bode was made in Delft on 27 October 1703—she was the widow of Valerius Röver. It mentions "a piece of painterly invention [titled] Christ on the ...