How to tell a child about crucifixes and resurrection to Christ.

Name:Jesus Christ (Jesus of Nazareth)

Date of Birth: 4 G. BC. e.

Age: 40 years

Date of death: 36

Activity: Central personality in Christianity, Messiah

Jesus Christ: Biography

The life of Jesus Christ is still the subject of reflection and referred. Atheists argue that its existence is a myth, and Christians are convinced of the opposite. In the 20th century, scientists who led good arguments in favor of the New Testament were intervened in the study of the biography of Christ.

Birth and childhood

Maria is the future mother of the St. Baby, was the daughter of Anna and Joachim. They gave the three-year-old daughter to the Jerusalem Monastery, as God's Bride. Thus, girls threw the sins of parents. But, although Maria and gave an eternal loyalty to the Lord, in the temple had the right to live only under 14 years old, and after obliged to marry. When it was time, the bishop Zahariya (the confessor) gave the girl to his wife to the wife of the eightiest old man Joseph, so that she did not break his own vow of carnal joy.

Joseph was upset by such a turn of events, but he did not dare to disobey the clergy. The newly new family began to live in Nazareth. One night, the spouses saw a dream in which they were Archangel Gabriel, which warned that Mary's Mary will soon become pregnant. Also, the angel warned a girl about the Holy Spirit that will decline for conception. On the same night, Joseph found out that the birth of a holy baby will save human genus from hellish torment.

When Maria wore a child, Herod (King Judea) ordered about the census of the population, so the subjects should come to appear at the place of birth. Since Joseph was born in Bethlehem, the spouses headed there. The young wife had a hard way to move the way, since he was already on the eighth month of pregnancy. Because of the cluster of the people in the city, they did not find their refuge, so they had forced to go for the city walls. Nearby found only Hvelets built by the shepherds.

At night, Maria is resolved from the Bremen Son, whom Jesus calls Jesus. The place of birth of Christ is the city of Bethlehem, which is not far from Jerusalem. With the date of birth, things are not definitely, since the sources indicate contradictory figures. If you compare the reign of Herod and Caesar Rome Augustus, this happened in the 5-6 century.

In the Bible it is stated that the baby was born on the night when he lit in the sky the brightest star. Scientists believe that a comet became such a star, which flown over the Earth from 12 to our era, 4 years before our era. Of course, 8 years old is not a small scatter, but for years and contradictory interpretations of the Gospel, even such an assumption is considered to be in the goal.

Orthodox Christmas is celebrated on January 7, and Catholic - December 26th. But, according to religious apocryphs, both dates are incorrect, since the birth of Jesus was by March 25-27. At the same time, the pagan day of the Sun was celebrated on December 26, so the Orthodox Church suffered Christmas on January 7. The conformists wanted to wean the parishioners from the "bad" holiday of the Sun, taking a new date. This does not dispute the modern church.

Eastern wise men knew that the spiritual teacher would soon go down on the ground. Therefore, seeing the star in the sky, followed the glow and came to the cave, where the holy infant was discovered. Entering inside, the Magi was bowed to the newborn, like the king and presented the gifts - Smyrna, Gold and Ladan.

Instantly rumors about the new Tsar reached Herod, who, having accepted, ordered to destroy all Biflem babies. In the works of the ancient historian Joseph Flavia there was information that two thousand kids were killed in the bloody night, and this is not a myth. Tyrant was so afraid of the throne, which even killed his own sons, what to say about other people's children.

From the anger of the ruler, the Holy Family managed to escape to Egypt, where they lived 3 years. Only after the death of Tirana, the spouses with the child returned to Bethlehem. When Jesus had grown, he began to help the instructed father in a carpentry affair than later and earned a living.

At the age of 12, Jesus comes with his parents for Easter in Jerusalem, where 3-4 days are leading spiritual conversations with scribes who have witnessed the Holy Scripture. Mentors The boy is striking the knowledge of the laws of Moses, and his questions are put in a dead end of one teacher. Then, according to the Arab Gospel, the boy closes in himself and hides his own miracles. Evangelicals do not even write about the future life of the child, explaining that Zemstvo events should not be reflected on spiritual life.

Personal life

Starting from the Middle Ages, the disputes about the personal life of Jesus did not subscribe. Many worried - whether he was married, left the descendants after himself. But the church believers tried to reduce these conversations to a minimum, since God's Son could not be addicted to the earth. Previously, there were many Gospels, each of which was interpreted in its own way. But the church believers tried to get rid of "wrong" books. Even there is a version that mentions family life Christ is not inscribed in New Testament Especially.

In other Gospels, the spouse of Christ is mentioned. Historians converge in the opinion that his wife was Maria Magdalene. And in the gospel of Philip, there are even strings about how the students of Christ came the teachers to Mary for a kiss on the lips. Although in the New Testament, this girl is described as the Bludnica, which has become a correction path and followed by Christ from Galilee in Judea.

At that time, the unmarried girl did not have the right to accompany the group of wanders, unlike his wife of one of them. If you remember that the risen Lord first did not appear to the disciples, but to Magdalene, then everything falls into place. In apokrifa there are instructions and on the marriage of Jesus, when he accomplished the first miracle, turning water into wine. Otherwise why would he and the Mother of God to worry about food and wine on the wedding feast in Cana?

During the time of Jesus, unmarried men were considered a strange phenomenon and even fodder, so there would be no idle prophet. If Maria Magdalene is a spouse of Jesus, then the question arises about why he chose it into the narrowed. Political trends are probably involved here.

Jesus could not become a contender for the Jerusalem throne, being a stranger. Taking into the spouses a local girl belonging to the princely family of Veniaminov knee, already became his own. Born the child would be a prominent political figure and an unequivocal contender for the throne. Perhaps, therefore, the persecution arose, and afterwards the murder of Jesus. But the church believers represent the Son of God in another light.

Historians believe that this was the cause of an 18-year-old gap in his life. The church tried to eradicate heresy, although the plastic of indirect evidence remained on the surface.

Confirms this version and Papyrus promulgated by Professor Harvard University Cain King, in which the phrase is clearly written: " Jesus said to them: My wife ... ".

Epiphany

God appeared to the prophet John the Baptist, who lived in the wilderness, and commanded him to do the sermon among sinners, and wishing to cleanse from sin - to baptize in Jordan.

Up to 30 years, Jesus lived together with his parents and helped them in every possible way, and after him there was an insight. He was strongly involved in becoming a preacher, telling people about the divine phenomena and the meaning of religion. Therefore, goes to the Jordan River, where he takes the baptism from John the Baptist. John immediately realized that in front of him the very tag - the Son of the Lord, and, perplexed, objected:

"I need to be baptized from you, and you come to me?"

Then Jesus went to the desert, where 40 days wandered. Thus, he prepared himself to the mission to redeem the sin of human race through the act of self-sacrifice.

At this time, Satan is trying to prevent him from temptations, which each time became sophisticated.

1. Hunger. When Christ was hungry, then the tempter said:

"If you are the Son of God, they led these stones to become bread."

2. Pride. The devil ascended a man to the top of the temple and Milns:

"If you are the Son of God, skit down, because you will support the Angels of God and you will not protect the stones."

Christ rejected and this, saying that he does not intend to experience the power of God for his own whim.

3. The temptation of faith and wealth.

"I will give you the power over the kingdoms of the Earth, which is predicted to me, if we bow to me," Satan walked. Jesus responded: "Get away from me, Satan, for it is written: God needs to worship and only serve him."

The Son of God did not give up and did not happen to the gifts of Satan. The rite of baptism gave him strength to combat the sinful facilities of the tempter.

12 Apostles Jesus

After wandering around the desert and fighting the devil, Jesus finds 12 followers and transmits them to a part of his own gift. Traveling together with the students, he carries the Word of God into the people and the wonders of miracles, so that people believed.

Wonders

• Water treatment in beautiful wine.
• Healing paralyzed.
• Wonderful resurrection of the daughter of Jair.
• Resurrection of the son of the Nain Widow.
• The doubt of the storm in the Galilee Lake.
• Healing of the Hadarian isleant.
• The wonderful saturation of Luda is five babes.
• The circulation of Jesus Christ on the water stroit.
• Healing daughter Khananeyanka.
• Healing of ten lepers.
• Miracle on Gennisret Lake - filling empty networks fish.

The Son of God instructed people and explained each of his commandments, incident to God's teachings.

The popularity of the Lord grew every day and the masses of people were in a hurry to see a miraculous preacher. Jesus bequeathed the commandments that later became the foundations of Christianity.

• Love and read the Lord God.
• Do not worship idols.
• Do not use the name of the Lord in empty conversations.
• Six days work, and the seventh - pray.
• Respect and read the parents.
• Do not kill another or yourself.
• Do not violate the matrimonial loyalty.
• Do not steal and do not assign someone else's property.
• Do not lni and do not envy.

But the more Jesus won human love, the more he hated Jerusalem. Welmes were afraid that their power would be shaking and killed the Messenger of God. Christ triumphs in Jerusalem on a donkey, thereby reproduces the legend of Jews about the solemn coming of the Messiah. The people enthusiastically meets the new king, throwing palm branches under his feet and their own clothes. People expect that the age of tyranny and humiliation will soon end. With such a pillar of Pharisees, they were afraid of arrest Christ and took the waiting position.

Jews are expected from him victory over evil, peace, security and sustainability, but Jesus, on the contrary, suggests them to abandon all worldly, become homeless wandering, which will preach the Word of God. Realizing that nothing will change in power, people hated God and counted a deceiver who destroyed their dreams and hopes. An important role was played here and Pharisees who incited the riot against "falseproorok" were played. The surrounding atmosphere becomes more tense, and Jesus step by step approaching the loneliness of the Gafeximan Night.

Passion of Christ

According to the Gospel, Christ Passions are made to call flour transferred by Jesus in the last days His earthly life. The clergymen compiled a list of passions:

• Entry of the Lord in Jerusalem Gate
• The evening in Viphania, when the sinner washes the legs of Christ by the world and his own tears, and wipes her hair.
• Omotion of his students God's Son's feet. When he came to the house with the apostles, where it was necessary to eat Easter, then the servant for the ablution of the stop of the guests was not found. Then Jesus himself washed his legs to his disciples, thereby taught them the lesson of humility.

• Last evening. It was here that Christ predes, that students will refuse him and betray. Shortly after this conversation, Judas left the evening.
• Road to Gefsemane Garden and Father's Fatherland. In the oilseed mountain, he appeals to the Creator and asks to get rid of the threatening fate, but does not receive a response. In deep sadness, Jesus is coming to say goodbye to his students, waiting for earthly flour.

Court and crucifixion

Going away from the mountain to a deep night, reports that the traitor is already close and asks his followers not to leave. However, at that moment, when Judas came with the crowd of Roman warriors, all the apostles had slept tightly. The traitor kisses Jesus, allegedly welcoming, but thereby shows the guards of the true prophet. And those shook it into the shackles and lead to the Sedrinion for the accomplishment of justice.

According to the Gospel, it happened on the night from Thursday on Friday, the saddimians before Easter. The first of Christ interrogated Anna - the father-in-law of Caiafa. He expected to hear about the wizard pieces and magic, thanks to which the crowds of the people walk and worship as the Divine. Nothing having achieved, Anna sent plenty of captured to Caiafe, who had already gathered elders and religious fanatics.

Kaiaf accused the prophet in the blasphemy for the fact that he called himself the Son of God and sent Pontius to the prefect. Pilate was a fair man and tried to dissuade the gathered from the murder of a righteous man. But the judges and the beautifulists began to demand the crucible. Then Ponti offered to solve the fate of the righteous people who gathered in the square. He announced: "I consider it an innocent person, choose myself, life or death." But at that moment only opponents of the Prophet were gathered near the court who screamed crucifixes.

Before the execution of Jesus, the 2 executioners were beaten for a long time, exchering his body and breaking the bridge. After a public punishment, a white shirt was put on him, which was immediately soaked in blood. There was a thorns wreath on the head, and on the neck - a sign with the inscription: "I am God" in 4 languages. In the New Testament it is said that the inscription read: "Jesus Nazori - King Jewish", but it is unlikely that such text would fit on a small board, and even 4 adverbs. Later, the Roman priests rewrote the Bible, trying to keep a disgraceful fact.

After an execution, which the righteous moved, without making no sound, he was supposed to bear a heavy cross on Calvary. Here, the hands and legs of the martyr knocked the nails to the cross, which was inserted into the ground. The guards told clothes from him, leaving only in a loined bandage. At the same time, two criminals were punished with Jesus, which hung on both sides of the inclined crucifix crossbar. In the morning they were released, and only Jesus remained on the cross.

At the time of the death of Christ, the Earth shuddered, as if nature itself rebelled against the cruel execution. The deceased buried in the tomb, thanks to Pontius Pilate, who very sympathized with the innocent execution.

Resurrection

On the third day after the death of the martyr, rose from the dead and in the flesh is their disciples. He gave them the last instructions to his ascension to heaven. When the guards came to check in place whether the deceased, they found only an open cave and a bloody loan.

All believers were announced that the body of Jesus kidnapped his students. The pagans hurriedly poured the land of Calvary and the coffin of the Lord.

Evidence of the existence of Jesus

After reading the Bibles, the original sources and archaeological finds, you can find real evidence of the existence of the Messiah on Earth.

1. In the 20th century, during the excavations in Egypt, an ancient papyrus was discovered containing poems from the Gospel. Scientists have proven that the manuscript refers to 125-130 years.
2. In 1947, the ancient scrolls of biblical texts found on the coast of the Dead Sea. This find has proven that the part of the first Bible is closest to its modern sound.
3. In 1968, during archaeological surveys in the north of Jerusalem, the body crucified on the cross - John (son of Kaggola) discovered. This proves that in this way criminals executed, and the Bible describes the truth.
4. In 1990, a vessel was found in Jerusalem with the remains of the deceased. On the wall of the vessel on the Aramaic adverb engraved the inscription, stacking: "" IOSEF, the son of Kaiafa. " Perhaps this is the son of the very high priest, which subjected Jesus persecutions and court.
5. In Caesarea, in 1961, an inscription on a stone was discovered, associated with the name of Pontius Pilate, the prefect of the Jews. He was called the prefect, and not a procurator, as all subsequent successors. There is also the same entry in the gospels, which proves the reality of biblical events.

Science was able to confirm the existence of Jesus, confirming the facts of the Testament. And even the famous scientist in 1873 said:

"It is extremely difficult to imagine that this immense and wonderful universe, as well as a person, originated by the will of the case; It seems to me the main argument in favor of the existence of God. "

New religion

It was still predicted that at the turn of the century a new religion will arise, carrying light and positive. And his words began to be incarnate. The new spiritual group originated quite recently and has not yet received recognition of the public. In the scientific use of the term NDD was introduced, as opposition to the words of a sect or a cult, which deliberately carry a negative shade. In 2017, more than 300 thousand people tied to any religious movement in the Russian Federation.

The psychologist Margaret Teler compiled a classification of NSD, consisting of a dozen subgroups (religious, oriental, interest, psychological and even political). New religious flows are dangerous in that the goals of the leaders of these groups are unknown. And also the bulk of groups of a new religion is directed against the Russian Orthodox Church and carries a hidden threat to the Christian world.

14.05.2016

The last chapters of all four gospels telling about the phenomena of Christ after his crucifixion, the godfather and glorious resurrection, painted by a special mystical mood. These are those forty days - from Resurrection to Ascension, when the resurrected Christ went on earth, usually invisible or unrecognizable, and - herself - was students and relatives.

Immediately rush into the eyes of inconsistencies and contradictions in the description of these phenomena four evangelists, to which you can also add the mention of the Apostle Pavle on the phenomenon of Christ separately by Kyfe (1 Cor. 15: 3-7) and Jacob, his brother in the flesh (namely - younger Son Joseph of the wrap, which, by legend, accompanied his father and Maria in their travels to Bethlehem to the census and back - already with the infant Christ, as well as in their flight to Egypt; He also headed later to the Jerusalem Christian community, becoming her first bishop and martyr).

And in fact, all four evangelists give four different versions that partly coincide, partially complement each other (and this is naturally the witnesses give indications, for example, in court), but sometimes they contradict or even confuse the picture of what is happening.

First, why the Myaron's wife's early Sunday morning go to the coffin of the teacher? Matthew (28: 1) writes "to see the coffin"; Mark - "bought flavors to go to anoint it; At Luke, they also go, "carrying cooked aromas" ... Ioanna about fragrances and speeches, there are no speech, because Nicodemus "brought the composition from Smyrna and Aloe, a liter of about a hundred," and, together with Joseph Arimafi "took the body of Jesus and wrapped him with pellets With incenses, as usually buried the Jews "(19: 39-40). Well, well, let's say, we decided to add more flavors and how to ritually mow into the dead man, because On the eve of the onset of the festive Saturday, everything was done in a hurry.

So, the myrrhey's wife come to the coffin and see if one angel, or two, run from the coffin in fear and whether they are silent, shocked (MK. 16: 8), or told the apostles about what they saw, like He ordered them angel (angels). With Maria Magdalina, there are strange things in general: whether it comes along with the rest (Matt. 28-1, MK. 16-1, Lux. 24-10), or one (in. 20-1), and whether it remains When the rest run away (and for this there is no grounds in the text), or whether it returns again and then he already sees the risen Christ, and then again along with another Maria (according to O.Seraphim Slobodsky). According to the sameness of the Church of the first news about the resurrection, the Mother of God received from Angel ("Angel of Assistant Thank you ..."), but in no canonical text, this fact is very likely, not fixed. SVT. Grigory Palama (Omiyl 18) writes that the Mother of God went to the coffin along with other myrrhea wives, obviously relying on a very ancient legend, because On some very early icons, one of them has three stars on Maforia (see Next icon on the lid of the Vatican Reliquarian). However, the grounds for this in the texts of the Gospels are not.

All these contradictions at one time were given to critics a reason to doubt the authenticity of evangelical evidence.

However, it seems to me that all these "inconsistencies" can be explained only by the aberrations of the time that began to occur even at the time of Christmas, as soon as the lord of time and eternity was in the fallen world. As they say in the apocryphal protoevantiagelia of Jacob (the church did not include him in the canon, but found quite pious reading - it was almost entirely in legend and some plots served as the basis for the iconography of some holidays), the time at the time of the Nativity of Christ stopped. And further, it seems to me, it began to turn it in the other direction - back, by the time of the sin of the progenitor, to the "point of alpha", with which the "point of Omega" should coincide - "end times" and the second and glorious coming of Christ, and then "New Earth and New Sky" (Rev., 21: 1). Because the times after the incarnation of the Son of God on Earth and are called the last, and how much they will last - a year, a century, two thousand years or more - it doesn't matter at all, because In any case, the countdown began.

So, starting from Christmas and during the whole of the earthly life of the Son of God, even in the conditions of the fallen land - it does not completely linear. We can assume that immediately after Christmas, it seemed to be revealed, flowed across two channels (at the time of the statement, i.e. after forty days after Christmas, when the holy family was in the Jerusalem temple and - at the same time - was in Egypt), and Then again connected.

The same effects over time, only even on a larger scale, we are then observed at the very end of the Gospels: first, it is an endless night after the secret evening and the arrest of the Savior in the Gefsemane Garden, the ships of the Sanhedrin, Herod and Pilate, when so many events happened that They can not physically meet in one night (time stretched out?); Then, at the time of the crucifixion and death of the Savior, the sun was averaged, the night suddenly came the night and how much lasted, unknown. May have occurred solar eclipse And, if so, then it was combaling - natural phenomena often coincide with meaningful events human history, the consequences of which are felt very long, in this case - to its very end. But the fact that "... Coffins were rejected; and many bodies of the departed saints resurrected and, coming out of his coffins on the resurrection of him, entered the holy hail and were many "(MF. 27: 52-53), this is definitely the phenomenon of an unusual order - these saints were clearly ahead of the time when all the dead revolve On a terrible court at the second coming of the Son of God.

It is believed that Christ was risen three days after the crucifixion. But even if you consider Friday (half a day), and the whole day of Saturday (from the sunset of Friday to Saturday's sunset), as well as 4-5 hours of early morning of the resurrection (or rather, the first day of the next week), then the full three days will not go. At the same time, we celebrate the resurrection of Christ at midnight, and the Holy Fire comes down in Jerusalem even earlier - on Saturday an hour in two or three afternoon, i.e. About two days after the death of the Savior. It became, here again there is a linear aberration - it was stretched in those days, whether it was squeezed. And from the moment of the resurrection, it was raised at all several rins. In the four Gospels are described, respectively, four options. And how many really were there? In any case, we can add apocryphic gospels from Peter and from Nicodemus, i.e. two more.

"In the coffin of a carnation, in the hell, the soul of Jaco God, in Rai and the robber, and on the throne there were if, Christ, with Father and Spirit, all the composite ..."

Great Saturday - "In the tomb of a carnal ..." Church of St. Nikita, Chuchecher, Macedonia, beginning 14th century Artists Mikhail Astrap and Evtichius.

It is clear that the Son of God as an equally friend of the Blessed Trinity can be simultaneously everywhere and everywhere, at any point of the tweak world and at the same time outside it - in the depths of the Most Holy Trinity. But in the flesh, let the thin and resurrected, but still material, the single person of even the Son of God can be broken into parts. Therefore, this trail - a visual illustration of several temporal layers involved in the "current moment" of the resurrection and forty days after the plus of the eternal stay of the Son in the Divine Lightweight ("on the throne ... with the Father and Spirit"). Amazing, prophetic penetration of songs into the essence of the happening, accepted by the Church as a given.

Therefore, all attempts were unsuccessful to make one gospel of four - the church rejected Tatian Opus along with Tatian himself (although his Diathrower and became popular for many more centuries), however, allowed different interpretations Holy Fathers and Modern Writers, for example, Father Seraphim Slobodsky in his "Law of God" (in fact, it is necessary to somehow state the events after the resurrection). Here's another one modern option - Elizabeth Mitchell: http://www.origins.org.ua/page.php?id_story\u003d1429. And, nevertheless, all such attempts suffer from stretching.

For the sake of justice, it is necessary to immediately note that the ancient and medieval Christians such as "aberration of time", "nonlinearity of time", etc., were not known. They operated only two concepts - "Time" (understanding under this word only time linear, i.e. "Chronos") and "Eternity" ("Eon"), although some writers (for example, SVT. Vasily Great in "Shestodnev" ) Maybe even at the subconscious level, they felt that the two of these terms was not enough. However, this theme is very extensive and deep and deserves a separate conversation. In the meantime, I think, takes.

The Christian artists did not have anything to do anything, as soon as you choose one of the options and present it on the icon (on the board of Lee, the wall, a planing of ivory, Larz, etc.). However, two options could be given on the walls of large cathedrals, and more, or somehow combine incompatible.

Therefore, in order not to fall in fantasy, you will have to disassemble examples byzantine iconography, relying on the gospel texts, but by placing them - very conditionally - in the time sequence, "in Lineshka" (although I repeat, it is actually impossible).

It is impossible to describe the unspecified event of the resurrection of Christ with human words. First of all, because no one has seen him. The apocryphal Gospel of Peter is also a story from the side - a witness observes the way out of the risen from the cave tomb, hiding at night in the garden. And it was unlikely that it was the apostle Peter, who, as is known from the canonical gospel, did not even believe the words of the Mironositz wives, until the Savior himself himself.

Therefore, the earliest Christian images of the Resurrection of Christ is precisely visiting the coffin of the Lord by the Mironine Wife. The iconography of the "Travel to hell", based on the apocryphal gospel of Nicodem, has emerged later, already in the afterconservation period.

The oldest of the preserved icons on the plot of the "Miro-Mire's wife in the coffin of Christ" was found on the territory of the current Syria in the past in 257. from R.Kh. The city of Dura Europa on the banks of R. Eugerat. During the excavations already in 20 V. There was found the most ancient building of the Christian church, decorated with a wall painting. Among other sacred images there are "Myrova's Wives".

The Merrator's Coffin is shown very conditionally - as a large Sarcophage of a Roman type with a lid - probably "Duro-European" Christians had a very vague praise about the Jewish customs of the burial, and in Jerusalem, even if they were, the coffin of Christ could not see - after taking and ruin The city of Roman troops, he was buried under the piles of garbage and, partly, under the temple built under the Emperor, Venus. But it is very clearly shown that the Mironos came at dawn - bright full moon The right of the coffin comes to the right, and the "Morning Star" (Venus) is shining right in front of myronosos.

In the 3rd century, we see the flourishing of Christian painting in Roman catacombs. Technique - Typically Roman, the best samples resemble the frescoes of Pompei. The first Christians used catacombs as a cemetery, and the main theme of images there is death and resurrection. Therefore, the icons of the phenomena of the Risen Christ would be quite organic and logical there. However, oddly enough, there are no. In general, the number of scenes on the walls of the catacombs is very limited. This is mainly: Christ is a kind shepherd, Adam and Eve, the history of the ions, the resurrection of the Lazarus, caring from the ark Noah, three years in Peshiki fiery, Daniel in Rava Lionin, a secret evening (or the Eucharist of Christians themselves - scenes of meals like, and not You can always distinguish them) and numerous oranges. There are images of miracles - mostly, it is the saturation of many people with bread and fish and the healing of a relaxed, which goes and drags their ORD on his back.

And here is a rare plot for Roman catacombs:

This fresco is interpreted as healing a bleeding wife, and as the phenomenon of the Risen Christ of Mary Magdaline. It seems to me that second. If you compare with a known picture of the early 19th century, the doubts disappear by themselves. A.Ivanov, most likely, in the catacomb was also seen this fresco, like Leonardo da Vinci "spied" his Madonna Litti in her time.

The tradition of such iconography was not interrupted - there are icons with the phenomenon of Christ Mary Magdalene and immediately two marias. But a little bit later.

We now consider the iconography of "Women's Mironosuz at the coffin" by the postman of the Epoch.

As you know, under the emperor Konstantin found the Mother's efforts of his equivalent Elena Coffin, the Lord (as well as his cross, and Calvary, and the entire complex of the shrine) was extruded from a large monolithic rock and the fact that it was left from this rock, together with the coffin-cave was Cleaned with an umbrella dome, forming a chapel-altar inside the round church-Martyrie, which was called "Anastasis" ("Resurrection") and became the place of pilgrimage.

And the myrrhos wives in Christian icons began to come ... to Konstantinova Rotonde.

Ravenna, Basilica Sant Popolbar Nuovo, 6 V.

Inside a round building with a tiled dome, a stone board is clearly visible - either a fallen sarcophage cover. Whether the broken door, despite the fact that the angel sits on the reclining stone.

On the cover of a wooden drawer-Reliquarian 6 V. (now stored in the Vatican) with the image of the crucifix and four holidays, there is a resurrection, i.e., according to the customer - "Miron's wife at the coffin."

The angel sitting on the stone angel invites the Mironosuits to enter the coffin-kuvuklia under an umbrella dome (from above another dome - a hemispheric with windows), inside of which - the throne on the lava, where the dead body of Christ was resting during the Saturday and where the Eucharist was held from the apostolic times.

Pilgrims loved to take with them as souvenirs-blessings ("EULEGY") Little vascular ampoules with holy water from Jordan, with oil from the lamps from Anastasis or just with Palestine Earth. The cheapest was made from lead and had different sacred images on barrels, including wives-myrrhosu at the coffin.

Several pieces were sent as a gift to the Langobard Queen Theodelinde Pope Gregory I Great about 600 and now the whole collection is kept in Monza.

Sometimes such ampoules were cut in half and medallion icons were made from each part.

As you can see, the rotunda itself is shown fairly conditionally (as, however, and on other icons of female Mironosuitsi in the coffin). However, some details were transferred: in the first case, the grille around the Kuvuklia, in the second - the lamp over the throne-lava.

The same - on the casket-reliquary from ivory, made approx. 500 years.

Also conditionally the coffin is transmitted on a unique carved wooden doors, preserved in the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome (approx. 430).

Ancient artists were important not accuracy in the transmission of parts, but a symbol, sign. Therefore, in the gospel of Rabuly (Syria, 6 c.) The image of the coffin is quite schematically and resembles more Roman mausoleum with double door, due to which three beams are broken and amazed by warriors; Between them and the "coffin" - a decorated large stone with a seal, which would seem to have nothing when there are doors. Angel for some reason is not sitting on a stone, but on a stool.

However, on plates from ivory 5-6 centuries. "Anastasis" is usually depicted somewhat more accurately - as a bunk rotunda with a dome.

Surprisingly, a few scenes were killed on small plates of the masters.

Milan Diptych 5 V.
1st Sash: Safety of the legs, the arrest of Christ + Pilate washes his hands, Judas returns money and immediately he is already hanging around, the Roman Guardians at the coffin (bunk rotunda).
2nd sash: runaway warriors + Angel (still without wings) at the tomb heralds the Mironos about the resurrection, the phenomenon of the risen Christ to two marias, the phenomenon of eleven apostles in the evening of the same day, the assurance of Thomas.
On the second sash depicted the phenomena of Christ after the resurrection.

But there are bone plates icons with two or even one plot.

Roman plate 4 in. From the Bavarian Museum. The above is represented by the Ascension Scene - a very early version of iconography.

Plate from the British Museum, 420-430.

Diptych trivuliches, con. 4 in.

However, and here the scene with the mirosses occurs on the background of semi-open doors. We remember this item. We will return to her a little later (in the 2nd part).

We note only one interesting detail: on the doors depicted the scene of the resurrection of Lazarus, as if the obvious proof of the resurrection and Christ himself, who first raised Lazarus, and then rose and himself. Moreover, on the icon from the Bavarian Museum, Lazarar is coming out of the coffin (or is it Christ himself?), On the other two - the usual familiar iconography, typologically reminding the iconography of the Annunciation. As if icon in the icon. But after a few centuries, it was the scene of the Annunciation that had moved from the altar pillars on the doors of the royal gates of Russian Orthodox churches. An interesting coincidence. Spring? But after all, the resurrection for Christ is the second birth (in the flesh), and Christmas is often called "Winter Easter". In addition, and for us Christ opened the way to the second birth - to life eternal. And the good news about this myrrian wives at the "Doors" of the coffin emanates an angel.

The parallel between the resurrection of Lazarus and the Resurrection of Christ, the artists will carry out for many centuries of the existence of the Byzantine sacred art, placing these two events on the walls of the temples in close proximity to each other.

Here is the earliest (of the preserved) examples.

Cappadocia, Chavushin, C. John the Theologian ("Big Pigeon"), Ser. 10 V.

On the southern wall in the upper row "Resurrection of Lazarus" and "Entrance in Jerusalem", in Nizhny - "Position in the coffin" and "Myarmos's wife in the coffin", then at an angle on the western wall - "Descent to hell", i.e. . Resurrection of Christ. The parallel is very visual.

Cappadocia, Gorem, C. Ascension ("with sandals"), 11 V.

To the left of Deisis in Lunt the "Resurrection of Lazarus", and directly opposite - "Resurrection of Christ" ("Descent to hell"), and "Miron's wife at the coffin" - over the niche of a diaconnik with Archangel (for a column).

"Miron's wife's" brush brushes of the same artist in another capadocyan rocky church, "dark", preserved better (or brutally renovated).

This icon (as in general, Cappadocyan wall painting) is very originally, if not to say - unique. Figures wives-myrrhols seem very small compared to the grand figure of the heavenly messenger, even sitting. And the plaque of Christ, to which he points the finger, rolled by a spiral. We note, by the way, that Maforia of both wives are decorated with stars - so sometimes holy wives were depicted in the east, for example, in Cyprus, in the Church Asin, as the mother-liked in the mother.

In the Tokaly church ("buckle"), gospel scenes transfers one to another - not only in the "new" part of it, but also in the "old", where they are located in three rows on both sides of a semi-curvous arch.

In the bottom row: "Crucifixion", "Removing from the Cross", "Position in the Coffin", "Myrova's Mironine's Wife" go to the "Descent to hell" is very peculiar.

Directly due to the empty coffin, figures of David and Solomon Rodrorkokov, which are already following the next scene - "Travel to hell" looks like. Here (as well as in Chavushin) the complete impression of the sequence of events in a linear time: first the Christ is resurrected, i.e. leaves the coffin, then goes to hell - it became bodily, even if even in thin telesurrounded by shine. There is no effect of simultaneity ("in the tomb of a carnation, in the hell of the sameness ...") No. And Satan in the human body, Christ tramples is also very specifically - "death to death." Blessed ingenious. And pure heart. And it is these simpleness and purity of heart in conjunction with sincere and hot faith so attracted to Cappadocyan - mostly monastic painting.

It is very different - exquisitely and luxuriously - mosaic looks in the large cathedrals of Italy, made by the wizards invited from Byzantium.

Starting from 10-11 centuries. And then, already confidently - at 12 V. The debris with empty funeral pellets begins to portray as he was in reality - cave-carved in the rock. This can be explained by the fact that the grandiose buildings of Emperor Konstantin, including "Anastasis", were destroyed and cleared by the pebble by Jerusalem Muslims, and the rest of the rocks with a cave of the Mernel was on the surface and was standing for some time, but rather soon was covered with garbage, t .. Almost disappeared from the eyes of human. And the crusaders who dreamed Jerusalem cost a lot of work to find the coffin of the Lord. After that, they erected a new Kuvukhlia over the coffin and a large temple, which covered the coffin, and Calvary and other shrines and which is worth it and so on.

So, on orthodox icons The coffin appears in the form of a cave. But now there is a considerable share of convention that is peculiar to Byzantine sacral art, in general, more symbolic than naturalistic.

Cathedral San Marco, Venice.

Cathedral in Montreal (Palermo), 12 V.

The scene of the "phenomenon of the Risen Christ of the Mironines in the Garden", placed immediately after the scene "at the coffin", looks much more logical, because In both cases, it is about the bodily resurrection of the Savior, and the temporal sequence is justified. (Figures of Christ and Mary Magdalene in the second scene - the result of late restoration, and it is immediately visible, but it makes no sense). And subsequently, the placement of scenes on the walls of the Byzantine churches will be exactly the same. The details of the images ranged depending on what kind of version of the four chose an artist or customer.

However, here, in Montreal, it seems different variants It turned out to be combined. In fact, Matthew Mironositz two, the brand - three, on Luka three are named by the names "and with them some others", i.e. exact amount It is not known, and finally, John is one Maria Magdalene. But usually the icons are depicted two or three named by name, among which are necessarily - Maria Magdalene, which is mentioned by all four evangelists. The left scene here is given exactly according to the brand. But on the next icon of the phenomenon of the risen combined scenes from MF.28: 9-10 (the phenomenon of Mary Magdaline and the "Other" Mary, where both "grabbed his feet and bowed to him") and in. 20: 11-17 ("Do not touch me ..." It is with this inscription: "NOLI ME TANGERE"). You will not say anything, a witty solution.

In the church of St. George (Star Nazorchino, Macedonia, 1317-18) On the southern wall of the Wamma, both options are given - the phenomenon of two marias to the left of the coffin with the two angels and the phenomenon of only Mary Magdalene - on the right.

And if you try to explain this inconsistency in more, so to speak, the positivistic key, without the "aberration of time", then maybe it was not entirely as explained by, for example, O.Seraphim Slobodskaya? We turn first to the Gospel of John. After all, the immediate witness and even the participant of events was only he. Matthew saw the resurrected Savior along with the rest of the apostles in the evening of the same day, Mark wrote, according to legend, from the words of Peter, Luka collected information and made his story from many sources.

So, according to John, the first came to the coffin of Maria Magdalene (and he does not mention other wives at all). One came, "when it was still dark" (20: 1), i.e. Before dawn, therefore, earlier than other worlds. And it did not come with flavors, but just "cry". But she caught the stone already with a cold, and the coffin is empty. And did not know the teachers simply because it was dark, despite the brilliance of angels. And maybe, precisely because, because of the bright brilliance of angels, the figure of the Savior in the dark was poorly visible. Hearing his voice that called her by name, she immediately recognized him and rushed to his legs. And his warning "Do not touch me" can also be understood. If Christ came out of a coffin just that, and was still on the verge between death and life, it was better not to concern him - better for Mary, of course. And, delighted an unexpected meeting, Maria Magdalene ran to the Apostles to report on the resurrection. In the meantime, two other Mary was approached to the coffin, which Christ was already "dense" and tangible, and therefore allowed them to fall to his legs. And then, maybe others - Salomia, John and others like them. Some of them who did not participate in the burial could carry flavors in the vessels, not knowing that they were no longer needed. Weather forecasters tell about the campaign to the coffin of other wives who followed Jesus from Galilee, listened to his sermons and served him. And each among them calls Maria Magdalin, knowing that she was also on the coffin, but with others or separately - they are not important. They are important to the fact of its presence.

Thus, it is also possible to explain the inconsistency in the last, sixteenth chapter of the brand - between the eighth and ninth verses. After all, according to some researchers, this piece (poems 9-20) was attached to the main text of the Gospel from the brand a little later (it is not in the earliest manuscripts, but already mentions SVT. Irina Lyon), and in meaning it turns out as if The ninth verse begins a new story that has been said earlier: "9 Surrention early on the first day of the week, Jesus was first Maria Magdaline, which expelled seven demons. 10 she went and announced former with him, crying and sobbing; 11 But they, having heard that he was alive and she saw him, did not believe ... "But this passage is completely coincided with the story of John. Then it turns out that Maria Magdaline said the apostles of joyful news. And the rest, according to the brand, (8) "... Going out, ran from the coffin; They were embraced trepid and horror, and no one said anything, because they were afraid. " It is difficult to believe that, according to commentators, they quickly recovered from shock and ran to the apostles. It seems that it was not just fear, namely fear of God, i.e. The reverent thrill that Rudolf Otto writes about in his book. It is this fear of God "The beginning of the wisdom", because it stems from a meeting with the deity, from the experiences of this meeting, when the hands are eager and the legs are cut, when the skin is frost, when the head is spinning ... the story stupid on this ...

I think about inconsistencies and imaginary "contradictions" will take. Each text is valuable in itself. And in each passage there is something that is worth paying special attention.

The Mironosians go to the coffin, which was indicated earlier, "carved into the rock" (Matt., 15:46; Luch., 23:56; MK., 15:46), and to the entrance "Againstone".

Such cave graves of those times are still found in the vicinity of Jerusalem, and, some, even with a stone that fall off (or rather, roll back) is pretty hard.

Sometimes the entrance was decorated with a certain similarity of the Roman portal:

Or the dead man put into a specially built Roman type mausoleum - maybe in this sample, and a canopy was arranged over the remains of the cave - Kuvuklia.

But Joseph, most likely, did not have time to place the entrance to his funeral cave. And she remained untreated, virgin.

Here comes a memory connection with the Christmas cave. In the cave, the Savior was born on the fallen land into the most dark and cold night of the winter solstice, and in the cave he is put dead, and risen, i.e. As if born at the time of spring blossom, when people are celebrating an equinox or Navruz - a new light, new Russia. It is not by chance that, of course, there were many cave temples around the Christian world, where the Eucharist was accomplished and a person had died for this fallen world and was re-born eternal.

The very body was covered first by the shroud, then accurately blamed bandages and was put in the cave (which Joseph Arimatesky arranged for himself, but lost to the teacher) to the lava - the stone proceed inside the cave, whose size was producing! - Exactly by the growth of the earth's body of Christ (1 m 75 cm).

Havivan inside Kuvuklia.

Why did the sir laid next to the body of the deceased? Here it is necessary to take into account the relationship of the Jews to the blood. They consider (and so far) that in the blood - the soul of man. And all even small drops of blood flowing from the body should be buried along with the body. Therefore, I collected the righteous Joseph of a blood flow from the wound from a spear into a special vessel (he is the Grail). Maybe I put it on custom in the coffin, but then I took back and kept, as the greatest shrine.

(I note in brackets an interesting point. I remember a few years ago a terrorist attack was shown on television in one of the cities of Israel: the police were collected on asphalt, even the smallest fragments of the terrorist tone of the bomb of the Israelites were removed and removed the blood spots along with the asphalt. The commentator explained why and why).

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Byzantine icons with Miron's wives, a great set has been preserved. And this is natural, because Romei paid increased attention to this topic. Among them are a lot of truly beautiful and deep spiritual works of art. Show them here everything is simply impossible.

Part of them I will lay out later when I finish the story of Christ's phenomena after the resurrection, because They should be considered in a complex with other nearby images and components of holistic compositions.

In the meantime - beautiful Russian icons.

Trinity Cathedral of Trinity-Sergiye Lavra. Festive chin.

Novgorod icon approx. 1475

Interestingly, the Myrronians here are seven.
And the resurrected Christ leaves the place of his bodily burial, which is not seen by anyone ...

Materials on this topic

How to tell the baby about crucifixes and resurrection of Christ - such questions often ask parents. How to tell just and how to tell about the essence? One of the best answers to this question is chapters from the book of Maya Kucher "Evangelsk Stories for Children." With the court consent of the author, publish the head of the book.

Crucifixion

Evil people crucified Jesus on the cross. They knocked him hands and legs with nails. So punished only terrible robbers. Jesus Christ was best all on Earth, but many did not understand this because they envied him. After all, everyone loved him, but they are not.

Jesus Christ died on the cross. The sky darkened, the sun stopped shining, and the Earth shocked. Trees and stones cried about the dead Lord.

One person named Joseph, took off the body of Jesus from the cross, wrapped in a white fabric and laid in a cave, in a stone coffin carved in a rock. Cave was B. big Garden. The entrance to the cave was closed with a huge stone so that no one could enter.

Joseph was a student of the Savior, but before no one knew about it. He was not afraid of anyone and he himself arranged the burial.

Resurrection of Christ

Maria Magdalene came to the cave, where Jesus lay. It was an early morning. It was quiet. Someone has already pushed a heavy stone from the entrance. Maria entered inside. But the cave was empty. Where is the Lord?

Maria Poklakla. And suddenly saw two young men in white clothes. These were angels. They sat where the body of Jesus had previously lay.

- Why are you crying? - asked Angels.

"Someone took it, and I don't even know where," Mary replied, rubing tears. She did not think that he was talking to Angels, because she had never seen them before.

Here Maria turned around and saw a man. It was Christ, but Maria did not recognize him. She thought it was a gardener.

- Did you take it? Tell me where you put it.

Jesus said:

And she suddenly recognized him. The teacher stood in front of her alive. So he did not die?

"Go, tell me to all my friends and brothers that you saw," the Lord ordered her.

Maria Magdalene ran to the city. Jesus's disciples sat at home and cried bitterly. They thought they would never see him again. Maria entered and said:

- Do not Cry. Christ is risen!

Immediately I can say what not to do. It is impossible not to adults, nor the children show the film of Mel Gibson "Passion of Christ", where the man who dares to portray the Savior's disgusting naturalism is shred, replacing the Christ of suffering is unknown than. It leaves a deadly impression in the shower, completely ruins the mind and heart, deprives orthodox Christian Prayer Spirit.

But communicate with children and adults, retell our great-grandmothers, Arina Rodionovna, always knew how.

A big misconception is to believe that with five-six-year-old kids it is necessary to suck, adapting the Holy Scripture and resorting to some diminutive suffixes. This is the fetalty of the Protestants who do not carry the Spirit of Mind, nor the Spirit of Love.

Experience testifies that the one-year-old kids harm their eyes and take grace not by means of intelligence, which has not yet developed in them, but their sensitive and pure heart, which, like a sponge, absorbs all the bright, elegant, high and genuine.

That is why those mothers who read the gospel were not mistaken over the year-old babies, sleeping in the cradle or on the manequer. Because, I repeat, God's grace acts on the immortal human soul in excellent.

"So, lovely children, get closer to me. Before you go to sleep, listen, friends, about what happened to the Great Quarter, Thursday, in our opinion, "says modern intelligent enlightened grandmother.

"The Savior Christ leads its disciples - Peter, John, Matthew, Bartholomew - Remember these names - in a large room, which is called in the Gospel of the Zion Hill. She is in Jerusalem. In this room, many candles were grilled, the floor and walls are removed by carpets. And the Savior Christ, from which love comes, and the world, and beauty, pretending to be a white flax towel, approach to the apostles - Jude, Peter, Matthew - went on his knees and soap their feet, died after traveling to Jerusalem from the surrounding villages. "

It is necessary to own a Russian literary language, gentlemen and ladies. And Pedagogical, and Pastoral, and parental experience shows that words emanating from the depths of the soul, the words that we draw in the heart box, are simple and uncomplicated, clear and beautiful, as if manna Heavenly, is bonded and remain in the memory of our listeners - and Outbursts and wise men.

And we would have neither Pushkin, nor Dostoevsky, nor Chekhov, nor Lermontov, if at a small age they did not receive such open lessons, which we have tried to produce now. So, having taken from gold childhood these memories, the geniuses of Russian literature subsequently enriched world literature with their own masterpieces. What and you wish you.

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

a variety of questions arises in families when we must open the mystery of life and death to our children. When we need to talk about our believable in our existence most beloved in our existence - about the end of our life.

And, probably, the death and suffering of Christ can become a way to open this mystery to those small who are not familiar with death.

There is such a general and, probably, the correct idea that the child does not feel the death. W.he has a feeling of eternal life. And it is correct - because death is actually not.

There is only one kind of death - the death of the body, temporary, unknown. After all, the soul of man remains a living, feeling, loving or hated. The child feels exactly this.

But with increasing, he sees that people leave this life - grandparents, and maybe someone and shame. And so the sufferment and death of Christ can be a summing up of a child to deep rethinking, the experience of death is not as the final leaving of a person, not as an infinite tragedy, as it feels a man who lives a carnation.

It is hardly necessary to explain something like something - you need to restrict the secretion of our salvation.

What is it? In the fact that we are imperfect, sinful and can even be rejected. But there is one who loved us even to death, and to the death of the godfather.

Christ, who loved us, explicitly dies like a living person. As a person who does not want to die, who would like to die, but dies, because it is necessary for us.

A child who begins to understand something in this can be said so. No naturalism is needed, such as, for example, in the film that Mel Gibson, I think that I didn't watch any adult forces.

But it is in these miser expressions that a child actually is a very thoughtful and susceptible creature: Yes, he lived for us. And he died for us. Yes, it was hurt and scary. (And what is "painful" and "scary" every child understands). But he loved us that I did this without doubting that it was necessary to do.

Yes, he worried, suffered, but did it without thinking, because it was a solution to our problem.

If we had some other problem - not the problem of eternal death, which stands before all of us, and something more solved and earthly, probably, it would not be necessary to die Christ for this.

But it happened so that we had to die. And he died for us. And we will live. And he risses, and we are resurrected.

Opening this mystery gradually, you can convey the foundations of Christianity and the child, and those adults who are still far from some kind of theological topics, quite difficult.

Quietly, gradually, through love. After all, death itself is powerless and sometimes meaningless. And when this happens through love, when this truth opens to a person - the greatest love God's to us. Then everything can be explained.

Ieria Dimitri Turkin

Of course, there are different children, different parents, different spiritual experience, different circumstances, so there is no versatility. But, in any case, it is necessary to talk with reverence. The child should feel that we reveal to this. For us, this is very significantly important.

How to talk about the suffering of Christ? They simply do not understand if the child is five or six years old. Does not understand, he thinks in childish perfectly. He had not suffered yet, and God forbid, so that he is more in joy in his children's child.

But the child must be told with reverence. And if something does not understand, then all this is postponed in his heart, in the memory of the heart. But, first of all, postponed in the memory of the heart, reverence in front of the shrine, before Christ, before the sacred history.

The child later, gradually, challenged, remembering, laying all this in memory and using his life experience, adds to this the reverence he has remembered from ornamental years.

And then faith becomes alive, then he belongs to this, as a shrine, and not as just to the history of some kind, which was once told by mom or dad.

Why crucified Jesus Christ? This question may occur in a person who either belongs to this event only as historical factOr makes the very first steps to faith in the Savior. In the first case, the most correct decision is to try not to satisfy your idle interest, but to wait, will not appear with the time sincerely desire with the mind and heart understand it. In the second case, you need to start searching for answering this question, of course, with the reading of the Bible.

During the reading process, various own considerations will inevitably arise on this. This is where some division begins. Some believe that each person has the right to his own reading Scripture And remain in their opinion, even if it is in the root varies with the opinion of other people. This is the position of Protestants. Orthodoxy, which is still in Russia is the main Christian confession, relies on the reading of the Bible by the Holy Fathers. This also applies to the question: why crucified Jesus Christ? Therefore, the next right step in an attempt to understand this topic is to appeal to the creations of the Holy Fathers.

Do not look for an answer on the Internet

Why orthodox Church recommends this approach? The fact is that anyone who is trying to live a spiritual life, necessarily reflects on the meaning of events related to the earthly life of Christ, about the meaning of his sermons and if a person moves in the right direction, then he is gradually opening the value, hidden explicit of Scripture. But attempts to combine knowledge and understanding accumulated by all spiritual and trying to be people, they gave the usual result: how many people are so many opinions. For each, even the most insignificant question, so many understandings and estimates were discovered that, as inevitable, the need to analyze and summarize all this information. As a result, such a picture was obtained: several people have definitely covered the same topic absolutely, almost literally, equally. Following the pattern, it was easy to notice that opinions exactly coincided with a certain kind of people. Usually it was the saints, theologians who chose a monasticism or simply led a particularly strict life, more carefully than other people treated their thoughts and actions. The cleanliness of thoughts and feelings made them open to communicate with the Holy Spirit. That is, they all received information from one source.

The discrepancies appeared from the fact that no one is perfect. No one can avoid the influence of evil, which will definitely be seduced, try to enter a person to delusion. Therefore, in Orthodoxy, it is customary to consider the truth, confirmed by the majority of the Holy Fathers. The same estimates that do not coincide with the vision of the majority can be safely attributed to personal speculation and delusions.

About everything related to religion, it is better to ask the priest

For a person who just began to be interested in such issues, the most better decision There will be an appeal for help to the priest. He will be able to advise the literature appropriate for the newcomer. You can seek such an assistance to the nearest temple or in the spiritual and educational center. In such establishments, priests have the opportunity to give a sufficient amount of time and attention to the issue. It is more correct to look for an answer to the question "What did Jesus Christ crucified?" That is what way. There simply does not exist for a unambiguous answer to it, and the independent attempts to find clarification from fathers are dangerous, as they wrote mainly for monks.

Christ did not crucify

Any gospel event has two meanings: explicit and hidden (spiritual). If you look from the point of view of the Savior and Christians, then the answer could be like this: Christ did not cruce, he voluntarily allowed himself to crucify the sins of all mankind - past, real and future. The apparent reason is simple: Christ questioned all the usual views of Jews on piety, undermined the authority of their priesthood.

Jews, before the coming of the Messiah, was in excellent knowledge and accurate execution of all laws and rules. Savior's preaching forced many people to think about the falsity of such a look at the relationship with the Creator. In addition, Jews expected the king promised in prophecies Old Testament. He had to free them from Roman slavery and stand at the head of the new earth kingdom. The high priests probably were afraid of an open armed speech of the people against their power and power of the Roman emperor. Therefore, it was decided that "it is better to us that one person died for people than to die all the people" (see Chapter 11, Poems 47-53). That's what crucified Jesus Christ.

Great Friday

What day did Jesus Christ crucified? All four Gospels unanimously argue that Jesus was arrested on the night from Thursday to Friday of the Prepass Week. All night he spent on interrogations. The priests betrayed Jesus in the hands of the governor of the Roman emperor - the procurator of Pontius Pilate. Wanting to avoid responsibility, he sent a captive to King Irod. But he, not finding in the person of Christ anything dangerous for himself, wanted to see any miracle from the prophet known in the people. As Jesus refused to entertain Herod and his guests, he was returned to Pilate again. On the same day, that is, on Friday, Christ was brutally beaten and, having pulled into his shoulders to the instrument of execution - the cross, took off the city and crucified.

The Great Friday, which happens during the week, preceding Easter, is a day of particularly deep grief for Christians. In order not to forget what day Jesus Christ crucified, Orthodox, every year every Friday observe the post. As a sign of compassion, the Savior, they limit themselves in food, try to especially carefully follow their mood, do not swear, avoid entertainment.

Calvary

Where did Jesus Christ crucified? After contacting the Gospel again, you can make sure that all four "biograph" of the Savior unanimously indicate one place - Calvary, or this is the hill behind the city walls of Jerusalem.

Another not an easy question: Who crucified Christ? It will be true to answer as follows: Sotnik Longin and his colleagues - Roman warriors. They driven nails in the hands and feet of Christ, Longin pierced the spelling body of the Lord. But the order did it mean, he crucified the Savior? But the pilat in every way tried to persuade the Jewish people to release Jesus, as he was already punished, being beaten, and was not found in him "no guilt" worthy of a terrible execution.

The procurator gave an order under the fear to lose not only its place, but also, perhaps, life itself. After all, the prosecutors argued that Christ threatened the authorities of the Roman emperor. It turns out that the Jewish people crucified their savior? But the Jews were deceived by the high priests and their false witnesses. So after all, who crucified Christ? It will be honest such an answer: all these people executed themselves in any other person.

Hell, where is your victory?!

It would seem that the high priests won. Christ took a shameful execution, the shelves of the angels did not go down from the sky to remove it from the cross, the disciples ran away. Only mother best friend And several loyal women remained with him to the end. But it was not the end. Mimic victory evil destroyed the resurrection of Jesus.

At least see

Trying to erase any memories of Christ, the pagans fell asleep the earth of Calvary and the coffin of the Lord. But at the beginning of the IV century, Elena's equal to the Apostles Tsarina arrived in Jerusalem to find the Cross of the Lord. She was trying unsuccessful for a long time to figure out where Jesus Christ crucified. She helped her the old Jew named Judas, who said that in the place of Calvary is now the Keep of Venus.

After the excavations, three similar crosses were discovered. To find out where Christ was crucified, the crosses were alternately attached to the body of a deceased person. From the touch of the life-giving cross, this man came to life. A huge number of Christians wished to worship the shrine, so I had to raise the cross up (erect) so that people could at least disagree him. This event occurred in 326. In memory of it, Orthodox Christians celebrate on September 27, the holiday, which is called this: the elimination of the Cross of the Lord.