Capital Crime
| Isaiah 52:13–53:12
Special Installment: Good Friday
Some crimes have altered the course of history. The crime against Jesus was the greatest of such crimes.
Watergate. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. American slavery. Julius Caesar’s murder. The execution of Jesus of Nazareth.
What do they have in common?
All are crimes that changed the course of history.
Watergate started with a simple break-in, but it ended with the resignation of the president of the United States and an erosion of trust in America’s elected leaders.
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand led to the start of the First World War, a conflict which reshaped the world politically and culturally.
Slavery may not have been illegal before the Civil War, but it is considered a crime today. The slave trade “robbed Africa of its people,” says The Atlantic magazine, “and perverted the foundation of America with a national sin.”
How about Caesar’s murder in the Roman Senate? It led to political changes and the growth of Rome into an...
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