Part 2, Why He Came: Chapter 10, Death: The Final Week Summary and Analysis

The death of Christ receives more attention than the death of most any other person before or since. Yancey suspects this is because the people of Jesus' time hope Jesus is the Messiah they are looking for. Jesus' unexpected and unexplainable death on the cross seems to prove to these people He is not the one they are looking for. After all, how can God die? Although he admits he cannot adequately describe the death of Christ from a non-biased point of view, Yancey tries to give a true-to-fact view of each facet of Jesus' trial and death.

The first stage in Holy Week, as some call the week of Jesus' death, is His triumphant entry into Jerusalem. During this entry into Jerusalem, crowds which...