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NASB | Matthew 27:22 Pilate *said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all *said, "Crucify Him!" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 27:22 Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all replied, "Let Him be crucified!" |
Subject: curious questions concerning crucifying |
Bible Note: Hank gave a very good description but I would like to add a little more. Jesus first suffering began in the Garden of Gethsemane at which time He sweated blood. This is a rare condition known as Hematidrosis. It happens when under great emotional stress; tiny capillaries in the sweat glands can break mixing the blood with sweat. This condition alone could of produced marked weakness and possible shock. With the soldiers striking Jesus in the face, by morning, He was battered and bruised as well as dehydrated and exhausted. When He was scrouged He was stripped of His clothing and His hands were tied to a pole above him. The "whip" was made of several heavy leather throngs with small beads of lead attached to the ends. At first the throngs cut only through the skin. As the scrourging continues each blow cut into His back a little deeper until there was arterial bleeding from in the underlying muscles. The small beads of lead produce bruises which are broken open by subsequent blows until the entire area is just a mass of torn bleeding tissue. The beating is stopped when the centurian determines that the prisoner is close to death. He is then allowed to slump to the ground where a robe is placed upon His back and crown of thorns is pressed into His scalp. Again there is heavy bleeding due to the fact that the head is one of the most vascular places on the body. After mocking Him with His "septor" the guards take the stick from Him and begin hitting Him on the head driving the thorns deeper into His head. When they tire of this sadistic sport the robe is ripped from His back. Since it had already adhered to the clots of blood and the serum in His wounds tearing it away caused excrutiating pain (similar to that of a careless removal of a surgical bandage). This caused the wounds on His back to bleed again. By this time He was in shock. The nails were heavy, square and made of wrought iron. The arms are not stretched out tight and the knees are left slightly bent allowing for an up and down movement of the body. As He slowly sags down with more weight on the nails in the wrists, excruciating, fiery pains shoot along the fingers and and up the arms to explode int he brain - the nails in the wrists are putting pressure on the median nerves. As He pushes upward to avoid this torment He places His full weight on the nails in His feet. Again there is the searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves between metatarsal bones of the feet. At this point another phenomenon accurs. As the arms fatigue, great waves of cramps sweep over the muscles, knotting them into deep, relentless, throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the inability to push Himself upward. Hanging by His arms, the pectorial muscles are paralyzed and the intercostal muscles in the chest are unable to act. Air can be drawn into the lungs, but cannot be exhaled. Jesus fights in order to raise Himself in order to get one short breath. Finally carbon dioxide builds up in the lungs and the bloodstream and the cramps partially subside. Spasmodically, He is able to push upward to exhale and bring in the life giving oxygen. It was undoubtedly during these times that He was able to utter the seven short sentences which are recorded in the bible. Hours of these limitless cycles of intermittent partial asphyxiation, joint-rendng cramps and excruciating pain go by as His tissue is torn from His lacerated back by the rough timber of the cross when another agony begins - a deep crushing pain in the chest as the pericardium (the sac around the heart) 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 tissue. The tortured lungs are making a frantic effort to gasp in amall gulps of air. The markedly dehydrated tissues send their flood of messages to the brain. It is now that Jesus says "I thirst". He is offered a sponge soaked in Posca - a sour cheap wine - and refusses. He can feel the chill of death seeping through His body. "It is finished". With one last surge of strength He once again pressed His torn feet agianst the nail, straightens His legs, takes His last deep breath and utters His seventh and last cry "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. Apparently to make sure of death, the legionnaire drove his lance through the pericardium and into the heart. John 10:32 states that "immediately there came out blood and water". Thus there was an escape of water fluid from the pericardium and the heart. We, therefore, have conclusive post death evidence that Jesus died not the usual crucifixion death of suffocation but of heart failure due to shock and constriction of the heart by fluid in the pericardium. Parts were copied from a description by an unknown author. |
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