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This connection explains the often imposing front and center position of a crucifix in most Catholic sanctuaries. This section of the Bible is one of the readings on Exaltation of the Cross on September 14 in the Roman Catholic Church along with the gospel that includes John 3:14, 15. Roman Catholics see the crucifix as the perfect fulfillment of that inferred by the serpent created by Moses in Numbers 21:8,9, called the Nehushtan.

Most crucifixes portray Jesus on a Latin cross, rather than any other shape, such as a Tau cross or a Coptic cross.

The crucifix emphasizes Jesus' sacrifice-his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of humankind. The symbol is less common in churches of other Protestant denominations, and in the Assyrian Church of the East and Armenian Apostolic Church, which prefer to use a cross without the figure of Jesus (the corpus). It is especially important in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, but is also used in the Eastern Orthodox Church, most Oriental Orthodox Churches (except the Armenian & Syriac Church), and the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as by the Lutheran, Moravian and Anglican Churches. The crucifix is a principal symbol for many groups of Christians, and one of the most common forms of the Crucifixion in the arts. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus (Latin for "body"). A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross.