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The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning, Rogier van der Weyden

Luke 23:33

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Luke 23:33 (WEB)

When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

Fathers and councils · 14

Augustine of Hippo

Tertullian

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  • Athanasius of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke

    When mankind became corrupted, then Christ manifested His own body, that where corruption has been seen, there might spring up incorruption. Wherefore He is crucified in the place of Calvary; which place the Jewish…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Luke

    Or else, without the gate were the places where the heads of condemned criminals were cut off, and they received the name of Calvary, that is, beheaded. Thus for the salvation of all men the innocent is crucified…

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  • Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke

    The only-begotten Son of God did not Himself in His own nature in which He is God suffer the things which belong to the body, but rather in His earthly nature. For of one and the same Son both may be affirmed,…

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  • Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke

    But if, on the contrary, after His intercourse with men, He suddenly disappeared, flying away to avoid death, He might be likened by man to a phantom. And just as if any one wished to exhibit some incombustible…

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  • Athanasius of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke

    Now our Saviour came to accomplish not His own death, but that of man, for He experienced not death who is Life. Therefore not by His own death did He put off the body, but He endured that which was inflicted by men.…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke

    Because also by a tree death bad entered, it must needs be that by a tree it should be abolished, and that the Lord passing unconquered through the pains of a tree should subdue the pleasures which flow from a tree.

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  • Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke

    But the figure of the cross from one centre of contact branching out into four separate terminations, signifies the power and providence of Him who hung upon it extending every where.

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke

    For not without reason did He choose this kind of death, in order that He might be the master of breadth and length, and heighth and depth. For breadth lies in that cross piece of wood which is fastened from above.…

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke

    Two thieves also they crucified on the two sides, that He might be a partaker of their reproach; as it follows, And the thieves one on his right hand, the other on his left. But it did not so turn out. For of them…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Luke

    But the two robbers crucified with Christ signify those who under the faith of Christ undergo either the pains of martyrdom, or the rules of a still stricter continence. But they do this for eternal glory, who…

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Cited together with

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.15.

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.15.

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.15.

Quotes

  • Luke 23:33 takes up the words of 2 Chronicles 3:17 (10 words in common).

  • Luke 23:33 takes up the words of Zechariah 4:3 (10 words in common).

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