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Behold means see with fresh understanding. Read this book to be renewed in your hopesfor today, for tomorrow, forever. Share this book with others, or read it to your children, so they may behold Christ too. Ramsey has succeeded at capturing and displaying the drama of Jesusincarnate, dead, and risenwith memorable force.

Robert W. Yarbrough, Professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary

Russ Ramseys solid biblical teaching and storytelling are treasures that have deeply impacted my journey as a Christian working in Hollywood. His writing creates a deep hunger for Gods Word. This is a book I will give friends to help them understand what I believe about the meaning of the cross.

Korey Scott Pollard, TV Producer and Assistant Director, A to Z, Greys Anatomy, House M.D., CSI, Monk, Rizoli & Isles, Nashville, Lie to Me

There is a graceful simplicity to Ramseys proseand to his retelling of the old familiar storythat enables him to truly move his readers with the potency of gospel. Here is a quiet voice that can shake stone.

N. D. Wilson, author, Death by Living and Boys of Blur

I dont know anyone who can make the storiesand the Storyin Scripture feel as present, as alive, and as sweeping as Russ Ramsey. His prose, his grasp of history and theology, not to mention his love of Jesus, do more than merely draw me into his bookthey makes me want to read the Bible.

Andrew Peterson, Singer, Songwriter, Author of The Wingfeather Saga

Ramsey has written a captivating narrative of the life of Jesus in a biographical style that captures the life of Jesus so vividly, at times youll wonder if Ramsey sat down and spoke with all the people involved in the story. Its the story of a real man who walked this earth and died on a cross bearing the wrath we deserve. Historical and faithful to Scripture, Behold the King of Glory is a wonderful Bible-reading companion for the Lenten season.

Trillia Newbell, author, United: Captured by Gods Vision for Diversity and Fear and Faith

With a writers imagination and skill, a theologians backbone, and a disciples devotion, Ramsey weds knowledge to emotional resonance and information to immanence in this moving account of Jesuss life. You will grow and delight as you travel with him.

Dan Doriani, Vice President of Strategic Academic Projects and Professor of Theology, Covenant Seminary

Many of us have wondered at some point, What would it be like to live when Jesus did? With purity to biblical truth and perceptive insight into how the human heart works, Russ Ramsey answers that question. He tells the story of Jesus dwelling among usa story filled with political intrigue, baffling miracles, relational complexities, and heartbreaking sufferingby presenting old truths in engagingly fresh ways. Read this book! And then share it with others who need to witness Jesus anew.

Jani Ortlund, Executive Vice President, Renewal Ministries; author, Fearlessly Feminine and His Loving Law, Our Lasting Legacy

It gives me great pleasure to endorse the life and writing of Russ Ramsey. We have been in the trenches together caring for the called out ones. Russ gave us gospel immersion and fruits of deep care with Behold the Lamb of God. He continues this life-giving pattern of grace and service with this new, beautifully written book pointing to the Hero King Jesus.

Charlie Peacock, author; teacher; Composer/Producer, AMC Drama, TURN; record producer for The Civil Wars, Switchfoot, and The Lone Bellow

Ramseys ability to knit the accounts of the gospels into a highly readable, easily accessible, and grace-saturated narrative is a blessing for all. Telling the story of Jesus in bite-sized readings that can easily accord with anticipation and celebration of the Easter season makes this book a special gift.

Bryan Chapell, President Emeritus, Covenant Theological Seminary; Senior Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church, Peoria, Illinois

This book throws open the curtains on Jesus and invites us to taste and see the only love that is better than life. This isnt a great book just for the season of Lent, but for every season of life.

Scotty Smith, Teacher in Residence, West End Community Church, Nashville, Tennessee

A NARRATIVE of the
LIFE, DEATH, and RESURRECTION
of JESUS CHRIST

BEHOLD
the KING of
GLORY

RUSS RAMSEY

FOREWORD by NANCY GUTHRIE

Behold the King of Glory: A Narrative of the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Copyright 2015 by Russ Ramsey

Published by Crossway
1300 Crescent Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

Cover design: Dual Identity, inc.

Cover image: The Bridgeman Art Library

First printing 2015

Printed in the United States of America

Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 2011 Text Edition. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-4508-5
ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-4511-5
PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-4509-2
Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-4510-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ramsey, Russ, 1973

Behold the king of glory: a narrative of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ / Russ Ramsey ; foreword by Nancy Guthrie.

1 online resource.

Includes index.

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ISBN 978-1-4335-4509-2 (pdf) ISBN 978-1-4335-4510-8 (mobi) ISBN 978-1-4335-4511-5 (epub) ISBN 978-1-4335-4508-5 (tp)

1. Jesus ChristBiography. I. Title.

BT301.3

232.9'01dc23 [B] 2014035617

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

For Chris, Maggie, Kate, and Jane.
You give so much more than you take.
This book is for you.
I pray you would come to know Jesus better
through my life than my writing.

Some people really know how to tell a story. They have the unique ability to make the hair on our necks stand up and to cause lumps to form in our throats by their renditioneven when weve heard the story before, perhaps many times before. Thats Russ Ramsey. And the beautiful thing about the story Russ has to tell and the unique gift with which he tells it is that this is not just any story. This is