The Scientific Death of Jesus

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The Scientific Death of Jesus

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death.

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 some other criminals who tied to their crosses, 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. The Romans inserted a small horizontal section of sharpened plank, placed where the lower back would be, on the upright of the cross so it would dig into the victim's kidney area when they tried to raise themselves up to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.

Jesus endured this reality for 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 atop to consider those wounds, actually made in his body? A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even larger nail hammered through the arches, and 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 suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones at Him. (The cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its higher part, where His hands were nailed).

Jesus had to endure this experience, to open the gates of Heaven, 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!
 

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The Scientific Death of Jesus

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death.

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 some other criminals who tied to their crosses, 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. The Romans inserted a small horizontal section of sharpened plank, placed where the lower back would be, on the upright of the cross so it would dig into the victim's kidney area when they tried to raise themselves up to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.

Jesus endured this reality for 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 atop to consider those wounds, actually made in his body? A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even larger nail hammered through the arches, and 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 suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones at Him. (The cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its higher part, where His hands were nailed).

Jesus had to endure this experience, to open the gates of Heaven, 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!
Good (but sober) presentation. I have often wondered why three days in the ground. The only conclusion I have come to is that three days in death is what was required to take away the sins of the world. Or perhaps it took three days to accomplish the tasks He undertook while in hell. I suspect the answer to such an important question is in the scripture to one wise enough to discern it.
 
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