Was Jesus crucified on a stake or a cross?

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• Great website, but Jesus DID die on a cross.

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  by Answers101 on March 19th, 2006

• the word stauros in Koine Greek means both tree and cross, but not stake. see my comment

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 9th, 2007

• http://www.antioch.com.sg/cgi-bin/bible/vines/get_defn.pl?num=616#A1 . /././
  http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/asw/asw01.htm

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  by Texasescimo on January 29th, 2010

• Here is some proof that Jesus was put to death on a stake.
  The book Das Kreuz und die Kreuzigung (The Cross and the Crucifixion), by Hermann Fulda, Breslau, 1878, p. 109, says: “Trees were not everywhere available at the places chosen for public execution. So a simple beam was sunk into the ground. On this the outlaws, with hands raised upward and often also with their feet, were bound or nailed.” After submitting much proof, Fulda concludes on pp. 219, 220: “Jesus died on a simple death-stake: In support of this there speak (a) the then customary usage of this means of execution in the Orient, (b) indirectly the history itself of Jesus’ sufferings and (c) many expressions of the early church fathers.”

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  by Anonymous on February 5th, 2010

• “Torture stake” in Mt 27:40 is used in connection with the execution of Jesus at Calvary, that is, Skull Place. There is no evidence that the Greek word stau·ros′ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before Christ.
  The inspired writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures wrote in the common (koi·ne′) Greek and used the word stau·ros′ to mean the same thing as in the classical Greek, namely, a simple stake, or pale, without a crossbeam of any kind at any angle. There is no proof to the contrary. The apostles Peter and Paul also use the word xy′lon to refer to the torture instrument upon which Jesus was nailed, and this shows that it was an upright stake without a crossbeam, for that is what xy′lon in this special sense means. (Ac 5:30; 10:39; 13:29; Ga 3:13; 1Pe 2:24) In LXX we find xy′lon in Ezr 6:11 (1 Esdras 6:31), and there it is spoken of as a beam on which the violator of law was to be hanged, the same as in Ac 5:30; 10:39.

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  by Anonymous on February 5th, 2010

• Interesting. Thanks for posting that.
  
  http://www.antioch.com.sg/cgi-bin/bible/vines/get_defn.pl?num=3076#2
  2. Tree
  xulon "wood, a piece of wood, anything made of wood" (see STAFF, STOCKS), is used, with the rendering "tree,"
  (a) in Luke_23:31, where "the green tree" refers either to Christ, figuratively of all His living power and excellencies, or to the life of the Jewish people while still inhabiting their land, in contrast to "the dry," a figure fulfilled in the horrors of the Roman massacre and devastation in A.D. 70 (cp. the Lord's parable in Luke_13:6-9; see Ezek_20:47, and cp. Ezek_21:3);
  (b) of "the cross," the tree being the stauros, the upright pale or stake to which Romans nailed those who were thus to be executed, Acts_5:30; Acts_10:39; Acts_13:29; Gal_3:13; 1_Pet_2:24;
  (c) of "the tree of life," Rev_2:7; Rev_22:2 (twice), Rev_22:14,19, RV, AV, "book." See WOOD.
  
  http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H636&t=KJV

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  by Texasescimo on February 5th, 2010

• There is another addition to the staurus, a cross with a circle.
  
  http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1912261
  St. Patrick
  According to one tradition, St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, introduced the Celtic cross while converting the pagan Irish to Christianity.
  
  Meaning
  The pagan Irish worshipped the sun and other heavenly bodies. In his drive to convert them, St. Patrick redesigned the cross with a superimposed ring, symbolizing the sun, linking together the four arms as well as the two religious beliefs.

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  by Texasescimo on February 5th, 2010