The Crucifixion

Jesus'last proof was the highest, the most convincing, the most profitable to his students. The malignity of brutal persecutors, the treason and suicide of his betrayer, were overruled by divine Love to the glorification of the man and of the true idea of God, which Jesus'persecutors had mocked and tried to slay. The final demonstration of the truth which Jesus taught, and for which he was crucified, opened
a new era for the world. Those who slew him to stay his influence perpetuated and extended it.------Mary Baker Eddy from the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"


"Let men think they had killed the body! Afterwards he would show it to them unchanged. --Mary B Eddy from the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"

"As of old, evil still charges the spiritual idea with error's own nature and methods. This malicious animal instinct, of which the dragon is the type, incites mortals to kill morally and physically even their fellow-mortals, and worse still, to charge the innocent with the crime. This last infirmity of sin will sink its perpetrator into a night without a star."
The author is convinced that the accusations against Jesus of Nazareth and even his crucifixion were instigated by the criminal instinct here described. The Revelator speaks of Jesus as the Lamb of God and of the dragon as warring against innocence. Since Jesus must have been tempted in all points, he, the immaculate, met and conquered sin in every form. The brutal barbarity of his foes could emanate from no source except the highest degree of human depravity. Jesus "opened not his mouth." Until the majesty of Truth should be demonstrated in divine Science, the spiritual idea was arraigned before the tribunal of so-called mortal mind, which was unloosed in order that the false claim of of mind in matter might uncover its own crime of defying immortal Mind."--Mary Baker Eddy, from the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"

"The efficacy of the crucifixion lay in the practical affection and goodness it demonstrated for mankind. The truth had been lived among men; but until they saw that it enabled their Master to triumph over the grave, his own disciples could not admit such an event to be possible. After the resurrection, even the unbelieving Thomas was forced to acknowledge how complete was the great proof of Truth and Love."
---Mary Baker Eddy from the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"