Originally published: Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, 2004 under title: The Passion of Jesus Christ.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123).

Introduction : Christ and the concentration camps -- Fifty reasons why Jesus came to die. 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 -- 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 -- 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.