Jesus in Sixty Seconds

Food for thought:

 
 Jesus' Death - 
60 seconds to understand 
60 seconds with God... 


THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS 
At the age of 33, 
Jesus was condemned to the death penalty. 

At the time crucifixion was 
the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals were condemned to be crucified. 
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. 
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 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, so He was 
forced to alternate
Between arching His back then using his 
legs just to continue to breathe. 
Imagine the struggle, the pain, the 
suffering, 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 handsand 
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 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 from His body. 
The beating so horrific that His face was torn 
And 
his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut 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 all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His 
members; 
A crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, 
A Roman soldier 
who stabbed a spear into His chest.

All these without mentioning the 
humiliation 
He passed 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, only for its higher part, 
Where His hands were nailed). 


Jesus had to endure this experience, 
So that we can have free access 
to God. 

So that our sins could be "washed" away. 
All of them, with 
no exception! 

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR US! 

 

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