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82 The Messiah’s Crucifixion Tree

The Crucifixion Tree and the N.T.

The Bible DOES NOT support the traditional idea of three crosses. As a matter of fact, cer-
tain versions of the Bible -- such as the KJV, the Jerusalem Bible and the NIV -- more accurately
translate the following passages by referring to a crucifixion “TREE.” Notice –

The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead -- whom you had killed by hanging him
on a TREE (Acts 5:30, NIV).

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a TREE (Acts 5:30,
KJV).

It was the God of our ancestors who raised up Jesus, but it was you who had him executed by
hanging on a TREE (Acts 5:30, Jerusalem Bible).

We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They
killed him by hanging him on a TREE...(Acts 10:39, NIV).

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusa-
lem; whom they slew and hanged on a TREE (Acts 10:39, KJV).

Now I, and those with me, can witness to
everything he did throughout the coun-
tryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself:
and also to the fact that they killed him
by hanging him on a TREE (Acts 10:39,
Jerusalem Bible).

When they had carried out all that was
written about him, they took him down
from the TREE and laid him in a tomb
(Acts 13:29, NIV).

When they had carried out everything
that scripture foretells about him they
took him down from the TREE and bur-
ied him in a tomb(Acts 13:29, Jerusalem
Bible).

And when they had fulfilled all that was
written of him, they took him down from the TREE, and laid him in a sepulcher (Acts 13:29,
KJV).

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written:
“Cursed is everyone who is hung on a TREE” (Galatians 3:13, NIV).

The Berean Voice March-April 2003