The Passion of Jesus Christ, Personal, Political, Unparalleled -- A Word About the Title and the Book -- The Great Offense: Was Jesus Christ Really Crucified? -- Jesus' Finest Hour-His Last -- The Unparalleled Passion of Jesus Christ -- The Passion of Christ and the Passion of Auschwitz -- The Passion of Jesus Christ, Its Aims and Achievements -- Christ Suffered and Died To Absorb the Wrath of God -- To Please His Heavenly Father -- To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected -- To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead -- To Show the Wealth of God's Love and Grace for Sinners -- To Show His Own Love for Us -- In Order to Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us -- To Become a Ransom for Many -- For the Forgiveness of Our Sins -- To Provide the Basis for Our Justification -- To Complete the Obedience Which Becomes Our Righteousness -- To Take Away Our Condemnation -- To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation -- To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful -- To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect -- To Give Us a Clear Conscience -- To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us -- To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness -- To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him -- To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age -- To Reconcile Us to God -- To Bring Us to God -- So That We Might Belong to Him -- To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place -- To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God -- To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest -- To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest -- To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry -- To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin -- That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness -- So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God -- To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves -- Died To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting -- To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him -- To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning -- To Create a People Passionate for Good Works -- To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love -- To Create a Band of Crucified Followers -- To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death -- So That We Would Be with Him Immediately after Death -- To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead -- To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities -- To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel -- To Destroy the Hostility Between Races -- To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation -- To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World -- To Rescue Us from Final Judgment -- To Gain His Joy and Ours -- So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor -- To Prove that the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good -- A Prayer -- Books on the Historical Reliability of the Bible's Record of the Life of Jesus -- Resources from Desiring God Ministries.