Les Feldick does not directly answer the location question in these clips, but he teaches that the cross was a shameful, curse-bearing death under Deuteronomy 21:22-23.
In Clip 1, Les says the Jews knew Deuteronomy 21 and were in a hurry to get Jesus off the cross before night. In Clip 2, he says the crucifixion was not beautiful; it was a curse because God laid on Jesus the sins of the whole human race. In Clip 3, he shows that the Jewish leaders could accuse Jesus because He had been hanged on a tree—the cross. The transcripts do not quote a statement about the city walls, but they consistently present the cross as a place of reproach and curse.
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 — Les quotes this Law to explain why the Jews called Jesus accursed and hurried to remove His body from the tree (Clips 1 and 3).
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 says that when a man was put to death for a capital offense and his body hanged on a tree, that body had to be taken down and buried the same day. The law states plainly, "he that is hanged is accursed of God," and leaving the body overnight would defile the land. This directly connects a tree-hanging death to a divine curse. 2 Corinthians 5:21 adds that God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us. These are the explicit scriptural anchors cited in the transcripts, and they present the cross as a place of curse and substitution, not merely an execution.
Les connects Jesus's crucifixion directly to Deuteronomy 21:22-23. He says the Jews knew this verse, and that is why they were in a hurry to get Jesus off the cross and buried before nightfall (Clip 1). He also teaches that the crucifixion was awful and not beautiful; it was a curse because God laid on Jesus the sins of the whole human race (Clip 2). In Clip 3, Les explains that the Jewish leaders could accuse Jesus of being cursed because He had been hanged on a tree—the cross. In these clips, Les does not explicitly say why the crucifixion took place outside the city walls; his emphasis is on the curse and reproach of a tree-hanging death.
Les quotes Deuteronomy 21:22-23, where a man hanged on a tree is called "accursed of God." Because Jesus was crucified on a tree, the Jews could accuse Him as cursed. Clip 3 specifically says the Jewish leaders could do this with a straight face and a straight conscience since He had been hanged on a tree, the cross.
Clip 1 points out that the Jews knew Deuteronomy 21, which required a hanged body to be buried that same day and not remain on the tree overnight. Leaving it would defile the land. That is why they were in a hurry to get Jesus off the cross before nightfall.
Les says the crucifixion was awful, not beautiful, and that people glamorize it with golden crosses. It was a curse because God laid on Jesus the sins of the whole human race. He points his class to Hebrews 13 in connection with this, emphasizing that the crucifixion was a place of curse, not ornament.
No. None of the provided clips states that Jesus was crucified outside the city walls. The relevant scriptural evidence in these transcripts is Deuteronomy 21:22-23 on the curse of the tree. The "outside the camp" language from Hebrews 13 is not quoted in these clips, so this page cannot go beyond what Les says in them.
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of Romans. They're parenthetical. Now from chapter 8, which we've just been looking at, for 9, 10, and 11, Paul deals almost primarily with the nation of Israel, just sort of a departure from those first eight chapters. So they're parenthetical. All right, now let's use that concept. Let's just mentally take 9, 10, and 11 and lift them out and see if we haven't got a complete sentence.
The Jews Knew Deuteronomy 21
Les reads Deuteronomy 21:22-23 to show why the Jews were in a hurry to get Jesus off the cross: a hanged man is accursed of God and the body must not remain overnight.
The Crucifixion Was a Curse
Les says the crucifixion was awful and not beautiful; it was a curse because God laid on Jesus the sins of the whole human race, pointing also to Hebrews 13.
Why Jews Could Accuse Jesus
Les explains that Jewish leaders could accuse Jesus because He had been hanged on a tree, the cross—the very situation Deuteronomy 21 addresses.
Why Israel Rejected Moses — And Then Rejected Christ
And so they weren't ready for Christ to return. They didn't want Him to come. They were too happy with their own religion. And so, as we've already read, "...they cried with a loud voice, 57, and stopped their ears, and ran upon Him with one accord, 58, and they cast Him out of the city, and stoned Him." Now I would like to make a point.
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The soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, gathered unto him a whole band, and they stripped him, and put on a scarlet robe. Now all of this was done in scornful mockery. And when they had plaited that crown of thorns, now unless you've been to Israel and can see that thorn tree, or unless you're aware of some of our thorny locust trees, I suppose come close.
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and mocked him, saying, Hail king of the Jews. They spit upon him, took the reed, and smote him on the head. And after they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to bear his cross.
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Crucified. And that's where it all begins. For us today, this is where it all begins. That this Jesus, yes, the same one who walked the streets and highways of Palestine. The one who performed the miracles. The one who had power over nature and life and death. Absolutely, it's the same one.
Deuteronomy 21:22: And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
The law describes a capital offender hanged on a tree—the kind of death Jesus experienced on the cross.
Deuteronomy 21:23: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
The key phrase "he that is hanged is accursed of God" shows why the cross carried a curse; Les quotes this to explain the Jews' urgency.
2 Corinthians 5:21: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
This verse underlies Les's statement that Jesus, who knew no sin, became sin for us on the cross.
Les says they knew Deuteronomy 21:22-23, which required a hanged man's body to be buried the same day, otherwise the land would be defiled. That is why they wanted Jesus's body removed from the tree before nightfall.
No. Les says the crucifixion was awful and not beautiful, and that people glamorize it with golden crosses. It was a curse because God laid on Jesus the sins of the whole human race.
Because Jesus had been hanged on a tree, the cross, which Deuteronomy 21:22-23 calls accursed of God. Les says this is why the Jewish leaders could accuse Him with a straight conscience.
In the provided clips, no. Les focuses on the curse of hanging on a tree rather than the geographical location. The 'outside the camp' concept from Hebrews 13 is not quoted in these transcripts.
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