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Galatians (‎8 occurrences)
- 20 I am nailed to the stake along with Christ.+ It is no longer I who live,+ but it is Christ who is living in union with me. Indeed, the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,+ who loved me and handed himself over for me.+
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  3 O senseless Ga·laʹtians! Who has brought you under this evil influence,+ you who had Jesus Christ openly portrayed before you as nailed to the stake?+
- nwt Galatians 1:1-6:18 - New World Translation (nwt)

Questions From Readers (‎8 occurrences)
- Many nations in ancient times executed certain criminals by impaling them on a stake or a pole.
  ...
  The Mosaic Law stipulated: “In case there comes to be in a man a sin deserving the sentence of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hung him upon a stake, his dead body should not stay all night on the stake; but you should by all means bury him on that day.” (Deut. 21:22, 23)
- w13 5/15 p. 13 - The Watchtower—2013

Agony on the Stake (‎8 occurrences)
- Agony on the Stake
  ...
  Jesus is now stretched out on the stake with his hands placed above his head.
- gt chap. 125 - Greatest Man (gt)

Agony on the Stake (‎8 occurrences)
- Agony on the Stake
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  Jesus is now stretched out on the stake with his hands placed above his head.
- w91 2/1 pp. 8-9 - The Watchtower—1991

To Whom Do You Belong? (‎8 occurrences)
- Three things must be observed, as Jesus said: “Let him [1] disown himself and [2] pick up his torture stake and [3] continually follow me.”
  ...
  6. What is implied by picking up one’s torture stake?
  
  ⁶ To pick up your torture stake also has a strong meaning.
- w74 10/1 pp. 599-604 - The Watchtower—1974

The Cross Is of Pagan Origin (‎8 occurrences)
- Admitting uncertainty as to whether Christ died on a cross, the church paper of the Evangelical-Lutheran State Church of Schleswig-Holstein, Die kirche der Heimat (The Church of the Homeland), remarked in its issue of August 2, 1951: “Whether the cross on Golgotha had a crossbar or not or whether it was just a plain stake, whether it had the T-form or whether it had a crossbar placed across the upright stake is hardly possible to determine now.”
- w68 2/1 pp. 93-95 - The Watchtower—1968

Prometheus Represented as Tied to a Stake (‎8 occurrences)
- Prometheus Represented as Tied to a Stake
  ...
  The Watchtower Society, publishers of the “New World Translation”, received a letter questioning a statement in the appendix that the Greek hero Prometheus was represented as tied to a stake.
- w51 3/15 p. 190 - The Watchtower—1951

Luke Study Notes—Chapter 24 (‎7 occurrences)
- executed on the stake: Or “fastened on a stake (pole).”—See study note on Mt 20:19 and Glossary, “Stake”; “Torture stake.”
- nwtsty - Study Bible

Philippians Study Notes—Chapter 3 (‎7 occurrences)
- enemies of the torture stake of the Christ: The expression refers to those who had once embraced Christianity but who had afterward abandoned it and turned to a sinful, selfish way of life.
  ...
  Here the term “torture stake” (Greek, stau·rosʹ) is used to represent Jesus’ sacrificial death on the stake. (See Glossary, “Stake”; “Torture stake.”)
- nwtsty - Study Bible

Ephesians Study Notes—Chapter 2 (‎7 occurrences)
- through the torture stake: Here the term “torture stake” (Greek, stau·rosʹ) is used to represent Jesus’ death on the execution stake.
- nwtsty - Study Bible

Galatians (‎7 occurrences)
- 20 I am nailed to the stake along with Christ.+ It is no longer I who live,+ but it is Christ who is living in union with me. Indeed, the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,+ who loved me and handed himself over for me.+
  ...
  3 O senseless Ga·laʹtians! Who has brought you under this evil influence,+ you who had Jesus Christ openly portrayed before you as nailed to the stake?+
- nwtsty Galatians 1:1-6:18 - Study Bible

April (‎7 occurrences)
- Jesus had to be hung on a stake to free the Jews from a special curse. (Gal. 3:10)
  ...
  Afterward, his dead body may be hung on a stake. (Deut. 21:22, 23; 27:26)
- es23 pp. 37-46 - Examining the Scriptures—2023

Continue Appreciating the Ransom (‎7 occurrences)
- Jesus begins to drag the stake to the place of execution, but soon a bystander is conscripted to carry it for him. (Matt. 27:32)
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  When Jesus arrives at the place where he will die, his executioners nail his hands and his feet to the stake.
- w21 April pp. 14-19 - The Watchtower (Study)—2021

“Certainly This Man Was God’s Son” (‎7 occurrences)
- JESUS DIES ON THE STAKE
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  During this dark period, four women approach the torture stake.
- jy chap. 132 pp. 300-301 - Jesus—The Way (jy)

They Found the Messiah! (‎7 occurrences)
- Then he ordered his men to beat Jesus with a whip and to hang him on a stake.—Mark 15:1-15.
  ...
  12. How did Psalm 22:16 come true? How did Isaiah 53:12 come true?
  
  ¹² The Messiah would die on a stake.
- ws11 8/15 pp. 9-14 - The Watchtower (Simplified)—2011

Did Jesus Really Die on a Cross? (‎7 occurrences)
- According to Greek scholar W. E. Vine, staurosʹ “denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake.
  ...
  Both the noun and the verb stauroō, to fasten to a stake or pale, are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross.”
- w11 3/1 pp. 18-20 - The Watchtower—2011

Religious Intolerance Now Admitted (‎7 occurrences)
- Many who refused to accept the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church were burned alive at the stake.
  ...
  When it was 70-year-old Protestant preacher Hugh Latimer’s turn for the flames, he encouraged Nicholas Ridley, fellow Reformer and fellow victim at the stake, with the words: “Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man.
- g00 4/8 pp. 12-14 - Awake!—2000

Cross (‎7 occurrences)
- Why do Watch Tower publications show Jesus on a stake with hands over his head instead of on the traditional cross?
  ...
  The Greek word rendered “cross” in many modern Bible versions (“torture stake” in NW) is stau·rosʹ.
- rs pp. 89-93 - Reasoning (rs)

What The Love of God Means (‎7 occurrences)
- An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, by W. E. Vine, says: “Stauros . . . denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake.
  ...
  Both the noun [stau·rosʹ] and the verb stauroō, to fasten to a stake or pale, are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross.
- w89 5/1 pp. 23-28 - The Watchtower—1989

Is the Cross for Christians? (‎7 occurrences)
- The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1979) states under the heading “Cross”: “Originally Gk. staurós designated a pointed, vertical wooden stake firmly fixed in the ground. . . .
  ...
  Because the Latin word crux and the English word cross are similar, many mistakenly assume that a crux was necessarily a stake with a crossbeam.
- w87 8/15 pp. 21-24 - The Watchtower—1987

Galatians (‎7 occurrences)
- 20 Χριστῷ to Christ συνεσταύρωμαι· I have been put on stake together. ζῶ I am living δὲ but οὐκέτι not yet ἐγώ, I, ζῇ is living δὲ but ἐν in ἐμοὶ me Χριστός· Christ; ὃ which δὲ but νῦν now ζῶ I am living ἐν in σαρκί, flesh, ἐν in πίστει faith ζῶ I am living τῇ to the (one) τοῦ of the υἱοῦ Son τοῦ of the θεοῦ God τοῦ of the (one) ἀγαπήσαντός having loved με me καὶ and παραδόντος having given beside ἑαυτὸν himself ὑπὲρ over ἐμοῦ. me.
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  3 ῏Ω O ἀνόητοι senseless Γαλάται, Galatians, τίς who ὑμᾶς YOU ἐβάσκανεν, bewitched, οἷς to whom κατ’ according to ὀφθαλμοὺς eyes Ἰησοῦς Jesus Χριστὸς Christ προεγράφη was written before ἐσταυρωμένος; having been put on stake?
- int Galatians 1:1-6:18 - Kingdom Interlinear (int)

The Glorification of the Messiah (‎7 occurrences)
- “And in case there comes to be in a man a sin deserving the sentence of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hung him upon a stake, his dead body should not stay all night on the stake; but you should by all means bury him on that day, because something accursed of God is the one hung up; and you must not defile your soil, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance.”—Deuteronomy 21:22, 23.
- po chap. 12 pp. 146-156 - “Eternal Purpose” (po)

Esther (‎7 occurrences)
- 14 And his wife Zeresh and all his intimate friends said to him “Have them make a stake seventy feet high, and in the morning tell the king to have them impale Mordocai on it, and go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” And Haman liked the idea and made the stake.
- by Esther 1:1-10:3 - Byington (by)

Questions From Readers (‎7 occurrences)
- The Gospel writers state only that he was impaled or fastened to the stake.
  ...
  They do not say in their accounts of the impaling how this was accomplished, whether by Christ’s being transfixed with the stake forced through part of the body, by being tied to the pole or by being nailed to it.—Matt. 27:35; Mark 15:25; Luke 23:33; John 19:18.
- w69 10/15 pp. 639-640 - The Watchtower—1969

The Cross in Worship (‎7 occurrences)
- STAKE WAS DEATH INSTRUMENT
  ...
  Jesus Christ was killed on an upright stake that had no crosspiece.
- w60 2/15 pp. 125-127 - The Watchtower—1960

Jesus Christ (‎6 occurrences)
- burial despite execution on stake: w22.06 29
  ...
  carrying torture stake: jy 296; g98 12/8 6-7; w92 7/15 6; w91 1/15 9; gt chapter 124; gm 96
- dx86-25 - Index 1986-2025

Torture Stake (‎6 occurrences)
- TORTURE STAKE
  ...
  (See also Cross; Execution on a Stake; Stake)
- dx86-25 - Index 1986-2025

Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 20 (‎6 occurrences)
- executed on a stake: Or “to be fastened on a stake (pole).”
- nwtsty - Study Bible

A2 Features of This Revision (‎6 occurrences)
- While this term could refer to the way that Jesus was nailed to the torture stake, it is more often used in reference to the ancient method of execution by running a sharp stake through the body and fixing the victim on it.
- nwtsty - Study Bible

Acts (‎6 occurrences)
- 23 This man, who was handed over by the determined will and foreknowledge of God,+ you fastened to a stake by the hand of lawless men, and you did away with him.+
  ...
  36 Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a certainty that God made him both Lord+ and Christ, this Jesus whom you executed on a stake.”+
- nwtsty Acts 1:1-28:31 - Study Bible

Learning From Jesus’ Final Words (‎6 occurrences)
- After being falsely accused and being judged guilty of a crime he did not commit, Jesus is mocked, cruelly tortured, and then nailed to a torture stake.
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  ² Let us discuss the words Jesus spoke as he was dying on the torture stake and the lessons we can learn from them.
- w21 April pp. 8-13 - The Watchtower (Study)—2021

Jesus Christ (‎6 occurrences)
- It can be seen that, while Jesus’ death on a torture stake plays a vital part in human salvation, acceptance of this is by no means all that is involved in ‘putting faith in the name of Jesus.’ (Ac 10:43)
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  More important, he brought them spiritual health and forgiveness of sins, being authorized to do so because, as the Christ, he was foreordained to provide the ransom sacrifice, in fact was already undergoing the baptism into death that would terminate on the torture stake.—Isa 53:4-8, 11, 12; compare Mt 9:2-8; 20:28; Mr 10:38, 39; Lu 12:50.
- it-2 “Jesus Christ” - Insight, Volume 2

An Innocent King Suffers on the Stake (‎6 occurrences)
- An Innocent King Suffers on the Stake
  ...
  JESUS IS NAILED TO A TORTURE STAKE
- jy chap. 131 pp. 298-299 - Jesus—The Way (jy)

Jesus Is Handed Over and Led Away to Die (‎6 occurrences)
- They keep shouting: “To the stake with him!
  ...
  To the stake with him!”
- jy chap. 130 pp. 296-297 - Jesus—The Way (jy)

Acts (‎6 occurrences)
- 23 This man, who was handed over by the determined will* and foreknowledge of God,+ you fastened to a stake by the hand of lawless men, and you did away with him.+
  ...
  36 Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a certainty that God made him both Lord+ and Christ, this Jesus whom you executed on a stake.”+
- nwt Acts 1:1-28:31 - New World Translation (nwt)

1 Corinthians (‎6 occurrences)
- 13 Is the Christ divided? Paul was not executed on the stake for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
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  17 For Christ sent me, not to baptize, but to declare the good news;+ and not with wisdom of speech,* so that the torture stake* of the Christ should not be made useless.
- nwt 1 Corinthians 1:1-16:24 - New World Translation (nwt)

A2 Features of This Revision (‎6 occurrences)
- While this term could refer to the way that Jesus was nailed to the torture stake, it is more often used in reference to the ancient method of execution by running a sharp stake through the body and fixing the victim on it.
- nwt pp. 1722-1725 - New World Translation (nwt)

Learn a Lesson From Nicodemus (‎6 occurrences)
- “IF ANYONE wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
  ...
  However, some who take pleasure in studying the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses hesitate to ‘disown themselves and pick up their torture stake.’
- w02 2/1 pp. 8-12 - The Watchtower—2002

1 Corinthians (‎6 occurrences)
- 13 μεμέρισται Has been parted ὁ the χριστός. Christ. μὴ Not Παῦλος Paul ἐσταυρώθη was put on stake ὑπὲρ over ὑμῶν, YOU, ἢ or εἰς into τὸ the ὄνομα name Παύλου of Paul ἐβαπτίσθητε; were YOU baptized?
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  17 οὐ Not γὰρ for ἀπέστειλέν sent off με me Χριστὸς Christ βαπτίζειν to be baptizing ἀλλὰ but εὐαγγελίζεσθαι, to be declaring good news, οὐκ not ἐν in σοφίᾳ wisdom λόγου, of word, ἵνα in order that μὴ not κενωθῇ might be made empty ὁ the σταυρὸς stake τοῦ of the χριστοῦ. Christ.
- int 1 Corinthians 1:1-16:24 - Kingdom Interlinear (int)

Galatians (‎6 occurrences)
- 13 Christ by purchase+ released+ us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse+ instead of us, because it is written: “Accursed is every man hanged upon a stake.”*+
  ...
  11 As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then, indeed, the stumbling block*+ of the torture stake*+ has been abolished.+
- Rbi8 Galatians 1:1-6:18 - Reference Bible (Rbi8)

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