The Murder of Jesus follows the final hours of Christ in detail: the arrest in the garden, the illegal night proceedings before the Sanhedrin, the hearings before Pilate and Herod, the scourging and mockery, the physical realities of crucifixion, the seven sayings from the cross, the darkness and the torn veil, and the burial. John MacArthur holds together the two truths that wicked men committed this murder and that God ordained it for the redemption of sinners.

The book suits readers preparing for Easter, believers whose sense of the cross has grown abstract, and anyone wanting the historical and legal background to the passion narratives. MacArthur does not soften the brutality, and the effect is to make the substitution more rather than less striking.