At the time crucifixion was the "worst" death.
Only the worst criminals condemned were 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 6 to 8 inches long.
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 larger 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.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.
JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU AND ME!
AMEN.
BUT, ALWAYS REMEMBER, HE ALSO DEFEATED DEATH AND ROSE FROM THE GRAVE AND IS ALIVE TODAY, WAITING ON YOU.
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