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 wood. 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 
pressed backwards 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 subside. 
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 creeps 
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 savior slain for our sins.


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