At the time crucifixion was 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 (wrist) and feet.
Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.
The nails were driven into His wrist. NOT into His palms as it is commonly believed. There is a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder.
The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wrist, the tendon would tear and brake, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to
support himself so that He could breathe.
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.
He was forced to alternate between arching His back, then using his legs
just to continue to breath. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering and the courage.
Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours.
Yes, over 3 hours!
Can you imagine this kind of suffering?
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 were actually made in his body.
A hammer driving large nails through His wrist.
His feet overlapped with an even larger nail hammered through the arches...
then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear.
Before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten.
The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face.
The crown of thorns cutting deeply into His scalp.
Most men would not have survived this torture.
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 out 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 His side.
All this, not to mention the humiliation He passed through while carrying His own Cross for almost 2 kilometers (about 1 1/2 miles). While the crowd spit in his face and threw stones, the Cross itself was an enormous weight to carry.
For the higher part alone of the Cross... (where His hands were nailed) was 30 kg of weight. About 66 pounds just for the top part of the Cross!
AND HE DID THIS... FOR YOU!
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 (wrist) and feet.
Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.
The nails were driven into His wrist. NOT into His palms as it is commonly believed. There is a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder.
The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wrist, the tendon would tear and brake, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to
support himself so that He could breathe.
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.
He was forced to alternate between arching His back, then using his legs
just to continue to breath. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering and the courage.
Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours.
Yes, over 3 hours!
Can you imagine this kind of suffering?
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 were actually made in his body.
A hammer driving large nails through His wrist.
His feet overlapped with an even larger nail hammered through the arches...
then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear.
Before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten.
The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face.
The crown of thorns cutting deeply into His scalp.
Most men would not have survived this torture.
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 out 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 His side.
All this, not to mention the humiliation He passed through while carrying His own Cross for almost 2 kilometers (about 1 1/2 miles). While the crowd spit in his face and threw stones, the Cross itself was an enormous weight to carry.
For the higher part alone of the Cross... (where His hands were nailed) was 30 kg of weight. About 66 pounds just for the top part of the Cross!
AND HE DID THIS... FOR YOU!
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