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And they crucified him.
That is all the bible tells about the event causing Jesus death. Thanks to the tree physicians we now have an insight what really happened.
Lets pretend we are standing on Golgotha nearly 2000 years ago and we are just watching what happened there as we were a camera . No comments.
It’s around noon the sun blisters the landscape. Golgotha is a low hill three pole’s are standing on top
A procession is approaching at the front of the procession a man with a board
Jesus Nazareer Rex Judeum
Behind the man with the board a man in a robe, The man is bleeding from his head he is wearing a crown plaited out of thorny twigs. His robe is stained with blood. You recognise Jesus
Behind Jesus is another man carrying a heavy beam. With him two other men carrying a same beam only these two their hands are bound to the beam.
Ten Roman soldiers are escorting these men behind them there is a crowd.
At the top of the hill the procession stops. One soldier obvious the commander says something to the other soldiers.
They lead the two men with their hands tied to the standing pole’s at the outside.
The man with the untied hands is directed to the pole in the middle he lays his heavy load on the ground .
The two men at the outside are forced to the ground they lie in front of the poles cursing and yelling.
The commander pours a drink in a nap and offers it to Jesus now he’s closer so you can see his face it’s been beaten up badly. Jesus take’s a sip but than he shake’s his head in refusal and return’s the nap to the soldier.
The man who carried the beam still stands there the commander turns to him and tells him to leave after a glimpse at Jesus he nod’s his head as if he was wishing him luck and take’s a run away from the scene.
In the mean time two soldiers are positioning the beam, when they are ready they approach Jesus so does a third soldier and a fourth waits in his hand a hammer and some big nails.
The commander is giving an order, the two soldiers take a hold on Jesus and the third take’s of his robe Jesus arches his back and yells in pain you see his body
Is covered with wounds witch start to bleed again his body shivers in pain now the three soldiers force Jesus down with his shoulders on the beam arms stretched one soldier each arm the third soldier holds his shoulders firmly.
The fourth soldier with the hammer kneels down he’s positioning the wrist to the middle of the beam feels with the finger of his right hand for the right place then places a big square nail at that place he picks up his hammer and with one blow he pierces the wrist and drives the nail in the wood again Jesus arches his back in pain while the man with the hammer fix the nail firmly with accurate taps.
The two soldiers stand up the one with the hammer goes to the other hand and repeats what he did before now Jesus lies down quiet he must have been fainted . The soldiers stand up they take a stand two at each side and lift the beam in one effort above their heads Jesus nailed to the beam is lifted even his feet are coming from the ground he regains conscience and his eyes are wide open in pure terror but he does not give a sound. The soldiers now have placed the beam on top of the pole they wiggle it till the hole of the beam fits the pen of the pole then the beam falls in place. Fortunately Jesus was again unconscious. He’s now hanging on his wrists his hands are cramped his toes still reach the ground . Than one soldier takes hold on Jesus right leg he lift his foot and places it flat to the pole the soldier with the hammer places a big nail even bigger then the nail he used for the wrists and with one vigorous blow he pierces the foot in the middle the point of the nail is already fixed in the wood he wiggles it to get him out of the wood. The crucified Jesus regains conscious he bleeds serious out of his scalp his face is in pure terror a soldier now picks up his left leg the crucified man even helps the soldier by placing his feet himself flat to the pole and lifting his body a bit as gave it him some relief. Now the soldiers are placing the already pierced foot over the other and with vigorous hammer blows they pierce the other feet and so together they fix the feet to the pole.
Than the soldier with the hammer picks up the board and he nails it with two nails on top of the cross.
It only took not more than 5 minutes.
What happens to a crucified man I best quote the physician Dr. C. Truman Davis:
On the Cross
As Jesus slowly sagged down with more weight on the nails in the wrist, excruciating, fiery pain shot along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain. The nails in the wrists were putting pressure on the median nerve, large nerve trunks which traverse the mid-wrist and hand. As He pushed himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, He placed His full weight on the nail through His feet. Again there was searing agony as the nail tore through the nerves between the metatarsal bones of his feet.
At this point, another phenomenon occurred. As the arms fatigued, great waves of cramps swept over the muscles, knotting them in deep relentless, throbbing pain. With these cramps came the inability to push Himself upward. Hanging by the arm, the pectoral muscles, the large muscles of the chest, were paralyzed and the intercostal muscles, the small muscles between the ribs, were unable to act. Air could be drawn into the lungs, but could not be exhaled. Jesus fought to raise Himself in order to get even one short breath. Finally, the carbon dioxide level increased in the lungs and in the blood stream, and the cramps partially subsided.
The Last Words
Spasmodically, He was able to push Himself upward to exhale and bring in life-giving oxygen. It was undoubtedly during these periods that He uttered the seven short sentences that are recorded.
The first - looking down at the Roman soldiers throwing dice6 for His seamless garment: "Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do."
The second - to the penitent thief7: "Today, thou shalt be with me in Paradise."
The third - looking down at Mary His mother, He said: "Woman, behold your son." Then turning to the terrified, grief-stricken adolescent John, the beloved apostle, He said: "Behold your mother."8
The fourth cry is from the beginning of Psalm 22: "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
He suffered hours of limitless pain, cycles of twisting, joint-rending cramps, intermittent partial asphyxiation, and searing pain as tissue was torn from His lacerated back from His movement up and down against the rough timbers of the cross. Then another agony began: a deep crushing pain in the chest as the pericardium, the sac surrounding the heart, slowly filled with serum and began to compress the heart.
The prophecy in Psalm 22:14 was being fulfilled: "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint, my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels."
The end was rapidly approaching. The loss of tissue fluids had reached a critical level; the compressed heart was struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish blood to the tissues, and the tortured lungs were making a frantic effort to inhale small gulps of air. The markedly dehydrated tissues sent their flood of stimuli to the brain. Jesus gasped His fifth cry: "I thirst." Again we read in the prophetic psalm: "My strength is dried up like a potsherd; my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou has brought me into the dust of death" (Psalm 22:15 KJV).
A sponge soaked in posca, the cheap, sour wine that was the staple drink of the Roman legionnaires, was lifted to Jesus' lips. His body was now in extremis, and He could feel the chill of death creeping through His tissues. This realization brought forth His sixth word, possibly little more than a tortured whisper: "It is finished." His mission of atonement9 had completed. Finally, He could allow His body to die. With one last surge of strength, He once again pressed His torn feet against the nail, straightened His legs, took a deeper breath, and uttered His seventh and last cry: "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit."
Death
The common method of ending a crucifixion was by crurifracture, the breaking of the bones of the leg. This prevented the victim from pushing himself upward; the tension could not be relieved from the muscles of the chest, and rapid suffocation occurred. The legs of the two thieves were broken, but when the soldiers approached Jesus, they saw that this was unnecessary.
Apparently, the make doubly sure of death, the legionnaire drove his lance between the ribs, upward through the pericardium and into the heart. John 19:34 states, "And immediately there came out blood and water." Thus there was an escape of watery fluid from the sac surrounding the heart and the blood of the interior of the heart. This is rather conclusive post-mortem evidence that Jesus died, not the usual crucifixion death by suffocation, but of heart failure due to shock and constriction of the heart by fluid in the pericardium.
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