The Detailed Description of the DEATH OF JESUS
Author Unknown
At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death …
The Crucifixion is the “worst” death. Only the worst Criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike Other criminals condemned to death by Crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the Cross by His hands and feet.
Each nail Was 6 to 8 inches long. The nails Were driven into His wrist. Not Into His palms as is commonly Portrayed in paintings and art. There’s a tendon in the wrist that Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew That when the nails were being hammered into the Wrist that tendon would tear and Break, forcing Jesus to use His back Muscles to support himself so that He could Breath.
Both of His feet Were nailed together. Thus He was forced to Support Himself on the single nail that Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could Not support himself with His legs because of the pain So He was forced to alternate between arching His Back then using his legs just to continue to Breath. Imagine if you can the struggle, the pain, the Suffering, because of our sins.
Jesus endured this Reality for over 3 hours! A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water From his wounds.
From common images We see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound To His side… But do we realize His wounds that were actually made in and to his body? A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped and beaten.
The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh off His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard was literally ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut deeply into and through His scalp. Most men never survived the torture of the whippings.
He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds. The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood. Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His limbs; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into the side of His Chest..
All these without mentioning the humiliation He suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight.)
Jesus endured this torture and death willingly for you so that you could have your sins “washed” away. All of them, with no exception!
Don’t ignore this Gift that He gives to you freely. You pay nothing for it, because He paid for it all!
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