What is Crucifixion?

What is Crucifixion?

A medical doctor provides a physical description:
The cross
is placed on the ground and the exhausted
man is quickly
thrown backwards with his shoulders against the wood.
The legionnaire
feels for the depression at the front of the wrist. He
drives a
heavy, square wrought iron nail through the wrist deep
into the wound.
Quickly he moves to the other side and repeats the
action, being
careful not to pull the arms too tightly, but to allow
some flex and movement.
The cross is then lifted into place. The
left foot is
press backward against the right foot, and with both
feet extended,
toes down, a nail is driven through the arch of each,
leaving the
knees flexed.  The victim is now crucified. As he
slowly sags down
with more weight on the nails in the wrists,
excruciating fiery pain
shoots along the fingers and up the arms to explode in
the brain-the
nails in the wrists are putting pressure on the median
nerves. As he
pushes himself upward to avoid this stretching
torment, he places
the full weight on the nail through his feet.  Again
he feels the
searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves
between the
bones of his feet. As the arms fatigue, cramps sweep
through his
muscles, knotting them deep relentless, throbbing
pain. With these
cramps comes the inability to push himself upward to
breathe. Air
can be drawn into the lungs but not exhaled. He fights
to raise
himself in order to get even one small breath.
Finally, carbon
dioxide builds up in the lungs and in the blood
stream,
and the cramps partially subsided.
Spasmodically,
he is able to push himself upward to
exhale and bring
in life-giving oxygen. Hours of limitless pain, cycles
of twisting,
joint wrenching cramps, intermittent partial
asphyxiation, searing
pain as tissue is torn from his lacerated back as he
moves up and
down against rough timber. Then another agony begins:
a deep,
crushing pain deep in the chest as the pericardium
slowly fills with
serum and begins to compress the heart. It is now
almost over-the
loss of tissue fluids has reached a critical
level--the compressed
heart is struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish
blood into the
tissues--the tortured lungs are making frantic effort
to gasp in
small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of death
creeping through
his tissues. Finally, he can allow his body to die...
All this the
Bible records with the simple words, "and they
crucified Him" (Mark
15:24).

What wondrous love is this? Many people don't know
that pain and
suffering our Lord, Jesus Christ went through for
us...because of
the brutality, crucifixion was given a sentence to
only its worst
offenders of the law. Thieves, murderers, and rapists
would be the
types of people who got crucified. Yet here, Jesus is
being
crucified between two hardened criminals...What did
Jesus do? Did he
murder anyone? Did he steal anything? The answer as we
all know is
NO!! Jesus did nothing to deserve this type of death,
yet he went
willing to die, in between 2 thieves, so that we might
be saved. And
there, in between the sinners, was our slain Savior
for our sins.

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