Cross

Cross is used here in its literal sense of crossing over — God traversing oceans and splitting rivers to bring his people home, foreshadowing the ultimate crossing that would come in Christ.

Cross-examination is the mode here — God as prosecutor demanding that idols present evidence, predict the future, or explain the past, exposing their total silence as proof they have no claim to worship.

Cross is used here in its figurative sense — God's declaration that he is the only God draws a bold line and dares any rival power to step forward and challenge it.

The Cross is invoked here as the New Testament fulfillment of the servant's disfigurement — the Roman execution that left Jesus unrecognizable, which Christians read as the event these verses foreshadow.

The Cross is the destination this chapter points toward — Isaiah's imagery of substitutionary suffering maps so precisely onto crucifixion that readers across centuries have felt they were standing at Golgotha.

The cross is invoked as the corrective to personality-driven Christianity — Paul insists Christ sent him to preach it, not to build a following, because the cross is the actual point, not the messenger who delivers it.

The Cross is the event behind every element of the Lord's Supper — the bread and cup only carry meaning because Jesus' body was broken and his blood shed there, which is what the Corinthians were treating carelessly.

The Cross underlies this passage as the ultimate act of love without self-interest — the foundation on which Paul's entire argument about love's supremacy over spiritual achievement rests.

The cross is referenced here as the price paid to redeem believers' bodies — the phrase 'bought at a price' points directly to Christ's death as the reason bodily choices carry moral weight.

The Cross is referenced here as the instrument of execution that the crowd was complicit in — Peter's final hammer blow is that the man they crucified is the one God has declared Lord and Messiah.

Cross is used here metaphorically as the line the crowd refuses to cross — the boundary of inclusion they will not permit God's mission to breach, ironically echoing the offense of the crucifixion itself.

Cross appears here as a tag within the word 'cross-examination,' marking the absence of any proper legal process — Ananias skipped it entirely and went straight to violence.

The cross is the implicit reference point here — Stephen's dying prayer of forgiveness mirrors Jesus's words from Calvary so precisely that his death reads as a conscious echo, one martyr following the pattern of another.

The cross is referenced as the moment the Passover lamb imagery finds its ultimate fulfillment — Jesus crucified at Passover, not a single bone broken, the whole Exodus story arriving at its intended destination.

Cross here refers not to the crucifixion but to the act of transgressing an absolute boundary — these three prohibitions represent lines God draws with no flexibility, no negotiation, and no path back once violated.

The Cross is foreshadowed by this veil's significance — the text hints that what this curtain separated matters enormously in light of what happens later, when it tears from top to bottom at Jesus's death.

The Cross is cited here as the event that rendered the inner veil obsolete — the chapter uses this forward reference to show that the Tabernacle's architecture was always pointing toward the moment when full access to God would be made available to all.

The Cross is the instrument of conquest here — the believers' testimony is grounded in Christ's death, which is what renders the accuser's charges powerless and enables their victory.

The cross is invoked here as a deliberate parallel — the 'It is done' spoken over the bowl judgments echoes Jesus's final words at his crucifixion, showing that both salvation and judgment flow from the same God completing his purposes.

The cross is referenced here as the ultimate contrast to Christ's return — he once submitted silently to crucifixion, and now he rides out of an open sky as the undisputed King of kings, showing the full arc of his identity.

The cross is presented here as the pivotal moment in the journey back to Eden — the decisive act of redemption that makes the restoration of the tree of life and face-to-face access to God possible.

Cross-examination is used here as a rhetorical metaphor to describe the interrogative, prosecutorial tone Eliphaz adopts in this second speech — less pastoral comfort, more adversarial challenge.

Cross is used here in its literal sense of passing through a threshold — specifically death — highlighting that even the one boundary every person traverses does not grant access to wisdom.

The Cross is invoked as the remarkable New Testament echo of Elihu's vision — a mediator, a ransom, restoration from the pit — language that foreshadows the mechanism of atonement centuries before it happened.

Cross appears here not in its primary theological sense but as a geographical verb — God rhetorically challenges whether Baal or Ashtaroth could cross the Red Sea the way he did for Israel.

Cross here refers literally to crossing the Jordan River — the act of passage that becomes a death sentence for Ephraimites whose dialect betrayed them at the checkpoint.

Cross-examination is referenced here colloquially to highlight what Manoah did not do — he asked no probing questions of his wife's account, accepting her testimony and turning straight to prayer instead.

Cross appears here as a verb — Jesus refusing to cross the road away from the unclean — contrasting his radical approach with the social distancing this chapter legally required from people with skin disease.

The Cross is invoked here as the distant fulfillment of this very verse — the blood-atonement principle articulated in Leviticus 17:11 finds its ultimate expression in Jesus's death outside Jerusalem.

The word 'cross' is used here in its ordinary sense of transgressing a boundary, framing the chapter's entire concern: what happens when the lines God drew in chapters 18–19 are violated.

The cross is the instrument Jesus is too broken to carry himself, requiring Simon's conscription — the central object of the entire chapter is physically introduced here on the road to Golgotha.

The cross is implicitly present as the contrast to the crown the disciples were arguing about — while Jesus speaks of suffering and death, they debate personal status and rank.

The word 'cross' is used here in its literal sense of traversing boundaries — describing God's intention to personally cross every geographic and national border to retrieve his scattered people and bring them home.

The cross is where John stood when he watched a soldier pierce Jesus' side and recognized Zechariah 12:10 being fulfilled — the specific event that transforms this ancient oracle into a confirmed messianic prophecy.

The Cross is invoked here as the vantage point from which readers can see the chapter's typological shadow — the convergence of royal and priestly roles that would eventually be fulfilled in a single person.

Cross is invoked here as the New Testament fulfillment of what Aaron's atoning work pointed toward — the gap the priests temporarily bridged was ultimately closed by Jesus.

Cross-section is used here to describe the multi-tribal makeup of the returnees — people from Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh all resettling together in a unified act of restoration.

The Cross is cited here as part of John's eyewitness credentials — he was physically present at the crucifixion, making his testimony about Jesus uniquely firsthand and unimpeachable.

The cross is the 'blood' witness here — the moment Jesus' mission was completed — paired with his baptism as the two historical bookends that the Spirit continues to testify about.

Cross is invoked figuratively here — the line Saul's own soldiers refused to cross, lifting a hand against God's priests, a moral boundary that even loyal soldiers recognized as inviolable.

The Cross appears as the instrument through which cosmic peace was purchased — Paul grounding the sweeping reconciliation of all things not in power or philosophy but in Christ's physical death.

The cross is where Paul says the legal record of every failure was nailed and canceled — not hidden or minimized, but definitively destroyed, making it the foundation on which the believer stands rather than something to build upon.

The cross appears here as the moment God's eternal plan broke into history — the specific event through which redemption was purchased and grace was lavished on humanity.

The cross is presented here not only as the mechanism of personal forgiveness but as the event that reconciled entire communities — the place where corporate hostility between groups was put to death.

Cross is used here metaphorically as the line Ezekiel could not bring himself to cross — the one boundary in an otherwise total surrender, where his priestly conscience drew the limit.

Cross here is used in its literal sense — the river has grown so deep and swift that it cannot be forded; this impassability becomes the dramatic proof that something far beyond a natural stream is at work.

The cross is Paul's final argument — either it was fully sufficient to accomplish what the law could not, or it was a pointless death; there is no middle ground, and adding requirements to grace chooses the latter.

The cross is Paul's singular boast and the letter's ultimate answer to the false teachers — he declares it the only credential that matters, the event that killed his allegiance to status and performance.

The Cross is invoked as the New Testament fulfillment of this pattern — just as God alone walked through the pieces bearing full covenant responsibility, Jesus on the cross bears the full weight of the new covenant so that humanity does not have to.

Cross here is used in the literal geographic sense — Jacob is about to ask his family to cross a desert — underscoring the physical cost and commitment required to follow God's instruction to leave.

Cross appears here metaphorically in the sense of crossing a border or boundary — the passage insists there is no geographic refuge from divine judgment when God moves at the scale described, no line to cross that puts one out of reach.

Cross is named as the event that fulfilled this New Covenant promise — the mechanism by which God made possible what the law never could: permanent forgiveness and internal transformation.

Crossing here refers to the physical act of ford­ing the Jordan River — the decisive moment of transition from wilderness to conquest that the entire chapter is building toward.

Cross is used here in its literal sense of traversing the Jordan — but the term carries theological resonance, as Israel's passage through the divided waters foreshadows the death-to-life crossing at the heart of the Christian story.

Cross is used here in a figurative sense — Paul's point is that genuine love makes moral boundaries feel irrelevant, because you'd never want to cross a line that would harm someone you truly care about.

The Cross is invoked here as the corrective to any cold or tyrannical reading of God's sovereignty — the potter imagery sounds harsh until you remember that this sovereign God proved his love by sending his Son to die.

The Cross is invoked here as the event that made the Temple veil obsolete — when Jesus died, the barrier Solomon built between God and humanity was torn open from top to bottom, signaling direct access had arrived.

The cross appears here not as a devotional symbol but as the theological template for Paul's ministry — an apparent weakness that turned out to be the source of transforming power.

Cross is used here in the sense of a boundary — evil cannot cross the line set by the restraining force until God permits it, underscoring divine control over the timeline.

The word 'cross' is used here idiomatically to describe Belshazzar's decision to use the sacred Temple vessels as party cups — a deliberate act of defiance against the God of Israel that triggers divine judgment.

The cross is referenced here not theologically but linguistically — 'crosses every gender and generation' — to underscore that Solomon's observation about manipulation and deception is a universal human problem, not a gendered one.

Cross appears here in the phrase 'doesn't even cross your mind' — used to describe the depth of Israel's forgetting, the complete absence of God from her daily awareness.

The cross is what these former companions have made themselves enemies of — they've chosen appetite and approval over the suffering and surrender the cross demands.

The Cross is invoked here as an analogy for protective guidance — just as a father doesn't merely teach street safety but walks alongside his child, God doesn't just impart wisdom but actively shields those who walk in it.