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Jesus' Torturous Crucifixion
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| At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death by crucifixion. | |
| At the time, crucifixion was the worst death, believer. | |
| Only the worst of the worst were condemned to this crucifixion. | |
| So, where was Jesus right before this event? | |
| He was in the garden of Gethsemane, seeking his father's face. | |
| This is where he cried out, sweat blood, and Jesus knew his fate. | |
| The Roman guards found Jesus and arrested him. | |
| Jesus was taken, and this is where the crucifixion part begins. | |
| Jesus is horrifically whipped and beaten in front of a laughing and mocking crowd. | |
| Now, this is the same community who was just praising him, throwing their coats at his feet just shortly before. | |
| The whipping was so bad that it tore the flesh from his body. | |
| His face was torn and his beard was ripped from his face. | |
| A whip with glass shards and other metal objects attached to the end of it going into his body, pulling out rips of flesh every time it was removed. | |
| Then a Roman guard pierced his side with a spear, and more Roman guards mocked him as they shoved a crown of thorns deeply into his scalp. | |
| Jesus had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from his wounds. | |
| 3.5 liters of blood removed from his body, believer. | |
| A crown of thorns on his head, and beyond that, a Roman soldier stabbed a spear into his chest. | |
| All of this without mentioning the humiliation that he suffered. | |
| After carrying his own cross, a cross that was 66 pounds, he carried this for 1.5 miles. | |
| The crowd laughed and mocked at him. | |
| They threw stones at him while he was at his lowest. | |
| Jesus was nailed to a cross by his hands and feet. | |
| Each nail was driven into his wrist, and there is a tendon that extends from the wrist to the shoulder. | |
| And the Roman guards knew this, and they knew that he would not be able to experience this pain without experience this experience without excruciating pain. | |
| There's a tendon that extends from that wrist to that shoulder, and the Roman guards knew it would tear and rip. | |
| Forcing Jesus to use his back muscles to support himself so that he could barely breathe. | |
| Both of his feet were nailed together, and 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 pain and pain. | |
| He was forced to alternate between arching his back and letting his weight drop onto his feet, believer. | |
| Imagine this struggle. | |
| I really want you to. | |
| Imagine this pain. | |
| Imagine this suffering. | |
| Imagine the courage. | |
| Jesus endured this reality for over three hours. | |
| Jesus went through this barbaric and horrific torture while getting mocked and laughed at by a crowd and died the most brutal death in history up until that point. | |
| But why did he do this, believer? | |
| Well, he did it because of me. | |