Understanding the Passion of Christ

 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 are 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 5 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

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 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 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 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 litres (just less than a gallon) of blood.

Jesus poured all 3.5 litres 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 kilometres, 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 you can have free access to God. So that your sins could be "washed" away.

All of them, with no exception! Don't ignore this situation. JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU! Do not believe that He only died for others (those who go to church or for pastors, bishops, etc).

Accept the reality, the truth that JESUS IS THE ONLY SALVATION FOR THE WORLD.

God has plans for you, show all your friends what He experienced to save you.

...He said (Matthew 10:32 &33):

"Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before

my Father in heaven; but whosoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven".

Without Him, I am nothing, but with Him "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me".

Philippians 4:13..

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