Author: Don Wood

Every line in this chart represents a cross-reference between any two books of the Bible. The New Testament does not replace the Old. It is saturated with it. Revelation alone contains over 800 allusions to the Old Testament. Scripture is its own best commentary.

Jesus was not a helpless victim of human violence or a tragedy of political injustice. He was not overpowered, outsmarted, or cornered. Scripture is explicit about this.

Jesus Himself said, “No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again”

(John 10:18).

The cross was not something that happened to Him. It was something He willingly stepped into.

What looked like defeat from the outside was, in reality, a deliberate act of love carried out with full authority.

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