Why is Jesus’ example of self-sacrifice and suffering death and resurrection are important for Christians

Examples of suffering are numerous in amount in marks gospel and are in one story, ‘Jesus is rejected at Nazareth,’ he goes back to his home town and everyone doubts him, they questioned where he got his wisdom from and how he can perform miracles. To me this is true suffering, he people he thought he could count on rejected him and he felt pain. It even says ‘he was not able to perform any miracles there, except that he placed his hands on a few sick people’. More obvious suffering comes before he was crucified, i.e. the 39 lashings, being stoned and spat at by soldiers. Also he was betrayed by his closest friend Judas and denied by his most loyal disciple peter. This to me shows that he has human feelings and when were suffering with things like being badmouthed by your best friend, Jesus can relate to that as he has been there.

Death. This is important to Christians as it shows that he was willing to give up his life, not least in such a heart-rending, disturbing and vicious way. The account of this in saint marks gospel is quite moving as it says exactly what happened. ‘At noon the whole country was covered in darkness which lasted for 3 hours . At 3 o’clock Jesus cried “ Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani” which means “my god, my god, why did you abandon me?” then Jesus let out a loud cry and died.

Resurrection. Jesus’ example of resurrection is important as it gives us hope for when we pass on and tells us that there is a heaven.

In conclusion Jesus’ examples of self-sacrifice suffering, death and resurrection are important because it shows that Jesus know what some of us are going through at some point and it shows that god and heaven exist and that there is hope for all of us.