Acts 10:39 it says Jesus was hung from a tree - Rev 11:8 says he was killed in Egypt.???

Question

What happened to the Cross in Rome???

Answer 1

Jesus was put to death on a tree, the King James Bible says so in more than one verse.

The King James Bible says Jesus was put to death on a tree.

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

Acts 10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

Rev. 11:8 has nothing to do with Jesus' death.

At Revelation 11:8 unfaithful Jerusalem, where the Lord Jesus Christ was impaled, is “in a spiritual sense” called Egypt. This is appropriate when we consider that unfaithful Jerusalem religiously oppressed and enslaved the Jews. Also, the first Passover victims were slain in Egypt, while the antitypical Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ, was killed at Jerusalem.

Revelation 11:3, 8 says that the corpses of God’s “two witnesses” lay in the broad way of the great city ‘called in a spiritual sense Sodom and Egypt.’ Isaiah’s prophecy (1:8-10) likens Zion or Jerusalem to Sodom and calls her rulers “dictators of Sodom.” However, about 96 C.E. when John was given the Revelation vision of events to occur in the future, the typical city of Jerusalem had been destroyed long before, in 70 C.E. The reference therefore must be to a “great city” or organization, an antitypical Jerusalem, pictured by unfaithful Jerusalem of old.

Answer 2

The word used is Stauros, which means torture stake. I believe it's just different translations of the word itself... What I find interesting is the fact that Crucifixion is a Roman punishment and was used for those who were Traitors to Rome.

There was no Cross IN Rome. Romans ruled over 1/3 of the civilized world at that time. So technically, to the Romans anyway, ALL of that was Rome. But in a more real sense it was the Middle East under Roman Rule.

Answer 3

The Rev 10:39 ref is not about Christ it is about the 2 witnesses, and it says "8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. "ESV
Note the word "symbolically" the text makes it plain that Jerusalem { the great city}is the place mentioned in symbolism
The tree is also symbolic language for the cross which This symbolism was often used in ancient times. Kinda like saying "crib" to mean house, "ride" to mean car etc...

Answer 4

You are correct. Hung on a tree means crucified. Mystically Sodom and Egypt are symbolic of Jerusalem. Those cities stood for two things, worldliness and immorality. So it is just saying that Jerusalem had become a very worldly and immoral city when these two witnesses came to testify against it, and they were put to death there. Jesus never was in Rome, and He did not die there. There is no Bible support for such an idea.

Answer 5

Rev. 11:8 doesn't state our Lord was killed in Egypt. The full reference reads "the great city which SPIRITUALLY is called Sodom and Egypt."

In other words, by the time the two witnesses (verses 3 - 7) come, Jerusalem's (where Jesus WAS killed) spiritual state will be like that of Sodom (sexually immoral) and Egypt (idolatrous).

Answer 6

Rev 11:8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

Look at the scripture again. Says FIGURATIVELY Egypt.

Cross in Rome....you smoking something???

Answer 7

Revelations 11:8 is not talking about Jesus. Its talking about the two witnesses (some speculate Moses and Elijah) who come to speak against the Anti-christ. They will be killed, and their bodies will lay in the streets and then they will be resurrected.

Jesus died on a cross at Golgotha, and was raised from the dead after three days.

Answer 8

Tree = cross.

Amazing.

It's just a figure of speech that was meant to signify the cross. What did they make a cross out of? Wood. Where does wood come from? Trees.

Sorry to sound sarcastic, but some things in the Bible do not have to be taken way out of context.

Answer 9

What is wood made from?? (A tree) Since John was a prisoner in the Isle of Patmos, Revelation was written in a fashion that the Romans would not understand so that it could get off to the Churches. Do a little study...

Answer 10

It was never Rome. Jesus lived in what we call the Middle East. It was RULED by Romans, but it was not IN Rome. And what you read in the Bible was written down many years later (CENTURIES later, in some cases) so it cannot be taken as historical fact.