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 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. 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 guardpiercing 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 (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!
He died for you! It Is easy to pass jokes or foolish photos by e-mail, but
when it comes to God, sometimes you feel ashamed to forward to others because you
are worried of what they may think about you.
God Has plans for you, show all your friends what He experienced to save you. Now think about
this! May God bless your Life!
LIKE if you believe He died for you And write “I LOVE U JESUS” if you mean it!
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