Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through. Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating.

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Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience.

The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse.

The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him.

Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will.

Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal.

He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man.

This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt.

Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone.

This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss.

Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull.

These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds.

At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in.

What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back.

Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile.

Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive.

Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms.

A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe.

He suffered for 6 hours.

His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life.

His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long.

His heart was struggling to pump blood.

He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking.

His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress.

And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin.

He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him.

HE DID IT ALL FOR US.

To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom.

Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it.

And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going.

For us.

Categories: Jesus Christ is King

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0 +1 MarGarTar 3 weeks ago

Ooogida boogida, nutjobs, nutjobs.

6 +1 dingus369 3 weeks ago

He is risen :angel:

0 +1 MarGarTar 3 weeks ago

American Christians love a bullshit re-writing of history. If Jesus did exist, could perform miracles and was crucified, it would have been way more TheYNC, than Hollywood.

6 +1 MisterProgneto 3 weeks ago

If the Romans gave 39 lashes, they wouldn't give 40 because they thought that one extra whipping would kill the person. If they gave lashes, they didn't crucify and vice versa. Jesus went through both. Hundreds of years before Isaiah had a vision and he said Jesus was so torn up from the flogging that he didn't even look like a man. By those stripes, or lashes, Jesus provided for our physical healing. By going to the cross He provided for our spiritual healing. The Passion by Mel Gibson is the only movie that even comes close to showing what Jesus suffered for all of us.

1 +1 ScreaminMime 3 weeks ago

OMG, he was put to death the way... hundreds of thousands also were back then?
Still not as bad as the shit they came up with in Europe.
People are just evil to one another :devil:

4 +1 MisterProgneto 3 weeks ago

@ScreaminMime The Romans never flogged and crucified. It was one or the other, but Jesus went through both.

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5 +1 Teatag 3 weeks ago

Why do Jews hate jesus?

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0 +1 GulliblestartswithN 3 weeks ago

@Teatag they don't. The sanhedrin (the 70 judges of the area) were 70% sellouts/helenistic Roman's who converted for free loans and popularity.

They actually stoned him to death, buried him, and wrote it in the census of that year. Christians ignore it to fit their agenda.

7 +1 dingus369 3 weeks ago

@Teatag Because their idea of the Messiah was a warlord and he preached a message of peace

5 +1 MisterProgneto 3 weeks ago

@Teatag As Dingus said, they were looking for a Messiah that would deliver them from the Romans by force. Also, Jesus destroyed their traditions and opposed their hypocrisy.

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3 +1 bootysaurusrex 3 weeks ago

Sally, fuck you, and fuck that dumb Syrian hipster. He got his ass popsicle sticked by Romans, get over it. Died for nothing, died for no one. Keep humping your retarded book of fairy tales.