The death of Jesus Christ

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to                  death. 

At the time,crucifixion was the "worst" death.             Only the worst criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful                              for Jesus. Unlike other criminals condemned                     to death by Crucifixion, Jesus was to be                             nailed to the cross by His hands and                              feet.  

Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.  

The nails were driven into His wrist, not into His palms as is commonly portrayed.  There's a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew

that when the nails were being hammered into the

Wrist, that tendon would tear and break,                             forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to               support himself so that He could breath.

Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus 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 arching His back then                              using his legs just to continue to breath. 

Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.  Jesus endured this reality for over 3                   hours.  

Yes,over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of

suffering? A few minutes before He died,

Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply                             pouring water from his wounds.   

From common images we see wounds to His hands and  feet and even the spear wound to His side... But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his body. A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side             with a spear. But before the nails and the                          spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten. The                        whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut   deeply into His scalp. Most men would not                      have survived this torture.

He had no more blood to bleed out, only water            poured from His wounds. The human                            adult body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood.  

Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had          three nails hammered into His members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His side... 

All these without mentioning the humiliation He       suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones.   (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight,

only for its higher part, where His hands were

nailed).  

Jesus had to endure this experience to open                 the Gates of Heaven, so that you can have free

access to God.  

So that your sins could be "washed" away.  All of them, with no exception!  Don't ignore this situation.

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!