Cross

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 term 'cross' appears here in its geographical sense — Israel is on the verge of crossing into Canaan, the land God promised their ancestors.

Cross here refers to physically crossing over the Jordan River into Canaan — Moses frames his own exclusion from this crossing as the backdrop for his urgent final appeal to obedience.

Crossing into the Promised Land is the imminent transition that makes these instructions urgent — the laws Moses outlines must be in place before Israel enters their new home.

The word 'cross' here refers to Israel physically crossing over the Jordan into Canaan — the imminent transition that makes Moses' instructions so urgent.

The crossing into Canaan is the imminent horizon of Moses's entire speech — these laws are designed for the life Israel is about to begin on the other side of the Jordan.

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.

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.

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.