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
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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Have a Blessed Holy Week.
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To a lot of people having lots of money from the start whether they were born with a silver spoon on their mouth or by inheritance gives them an unfair advantage. For me that is mostly true but we don't have to be limited by that in order to pursue whatever we want in life or enjoy living it. My virtual mentor Jim Rohn who recently passed away have this to say about the other things available to most of us that are more valuable than money. Let's keep them in mind on our life's journey:
