As he hung on the cross, a soldier pierced his side with a lance, and his blood flowed from the wound. Early Christian thought on the significance of Christ’s death was clearly presented in the Apocalypse (The Book of Revelation) in which John spoke of Jesus as the one who “freed ...
the crowd who had demanded Jesus’s death, “My hands are clean of this man’s blood.” The crowd replied, “His blood be upon us, and on our children” (Matthew 27:24–26). As he hung on the cross, a soldier pierced his side with a lance, and his blood flowed from the wound...
The line in one of these Invocations about the Sacred Heart of Jesus reminds us of a well-known devotion to our Lord’s Sacred Heart in mentioning that wondrous event when Longinus thrust his spear into our Lord’s side upon His death and blood and water flowed out (John 19:34). ...
“This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these ...
water from the well in which Hugh’s remains had been found. Having heard of the miracles associated with Little Hugh, the canons of Lincoln Cathedral requested the body and Little Hugh ‘was honourably buried in the church of Lincoln as if it had been the corpse of a precious martyr,’...
the crowd who had demanded Jesus’s death, “My hands are clean of this man’s blood.” The crowd replied, “His blood be upon us, and on our children” (Matthew 27:24–26). As he hung on the cross, a soldier pierced his side with a lance, and his blood flowed from the wound...