HOW JESUS
DIED FOR YOU
Read 55 Amazing
Facts on Jesus Death
Below are facts on How Jesus Died For You. I do not think that we really
understand how much Jesus did for us.
Crucifixion was
invented by the Persians in 300 BC, and perfected by the Romans in 100 BC.
1. It is the most
painful death ever invented by man and is where we get our term
"excruciating."
2. It was reserved
primarily for the most vicious of male criminals.
3. Jesus was stripped naked and His clothing divided by the
Roman guards. This was in fulfillment of Psalm 22:18, "They
divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots."
4. The Crucifixion
of Jesus guaranteed a horrific, slow, painful death.
5. Jesus' knees were flexed at about 45 degrees, and He was
forced to bear His
weight with the
muscles of His thigh, which is not an anatomical position which is possible to
maintain for more than a few minutes without severe cramp in the muscles of the
thigh and calf.
6. Jesus' weight was borne on His feet, with nails driven through
them. As the strength of the muscles of Jesus' lower limbs tired, the
weight of His body had to be transferred to His wrists, His arms, and His
shoulders.
7. Within a few
minutes of being placed on the Cross, Jesus' shoulders were dislocated. Minutes
later Jesus' elbows and wrists became dislocated.
8. The result of
these upper limb dislocations is that His arms were 9 inches longer than
normal, as clearly shown on the Shroud.
9. In addition
prophecy was fulfilled in Psalm 22:14, "I am poured out like water, and
all My bones are out of joint."
10. After Jesus' wrists, elbows, and shoulders were dislocated, the
weight of His body on his upper limbs caused traction forces on the Pectoralis
Major muscles of His chest wall.
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11. These traction
forces caused His rib cage to be pulled upwards and outwards, in a most
unnatural state. His chest wall was permanently in a position of maximal
respiratory inspiration. In order to exhale, Jesus was physiologically required
to force His body.
12. In order to
breathe out, Jesus had to push down on the nails in His feet to raise
His body, and allow His rib cage to move downwards and inwards to expire air
from His lungs.
13. His lungs were
in a resting position of constant maximum inspiration. Crucifixion is a
medical catastrophe.
14. The problem
was that Jesus could not easily push down on the nails in His feet
because the muscles of His legs, bent at 45 degrees, were extremely fatigued,
in severe cramp, and in an anatomically compromised position.
15. Unlike all
Hollywood movies about the Crucifixion, the victim was extremely
active. The crucified victim was physiologically forced to move up and
down the cross, a distance of about 12 inches, in order to breathe.
16. The process of
respiration caused excruciating pain, mixed with the absolute terror of
asphyxiation.
17. As the six
hours of the Crucifixion wore on, Jesus was less and less able to bear His weight on His
legs, as His thigh and calf muscles became increasingly exhausted. There
was increasing dislocation of His wrists, elbows and shoulders, and further
elevation of His chest wall, making His breathing more and more
difficult. Within minutes of crucifixion Jesus became severely dyspnoeic
(short of breath).
18. His movements
up and down the Cross to breathe caused excruciating pain in His wrist, His
feet, and His dislocated elbows and shoulders.
19. The movements
became less frequent as Jesus became increasingly exhausted, but the terror of
imminent death by asphyxiation forced Him to continue in His efforts to
breathe.
20. Jesus' lower limb muscles developed excruciating cramp from
the effort of pushing down on His legs, to raise His body, so that He could
breathe out, in their anatomically compromised position.
21. The pain from
His two shattered median nerves in His wrists exploded with every movement.
22. Jesus was covered in blood and sweat.
23. The blood was
a result of the Scourging that nearly killed Him, and the sweat as a result of
His violent involuntary attempts to effort to expire air from His
lungs. Throughout all this He was completely naked, and the leaders of the
Jews, the crowds, and the thieves on both sides of Him were jeering, swearing
and laughing at Him. In addition, Jesus' own mother was watching.
24.
Physiologically, Jesus' body was undergoing a series of catastrophic and
terminal events.
25. Because Jesus
could not maintain adequate ventilation of His lungs, He was now in a state
of hypo-ventilation (inadequate ventilation).
26. His blood
oxygen level began to fall, and He developed Hypoxia (low blood
oxygen). In addition, because of His restricted respiratory movements, His
blood carbon dioxide (CO2) level began to rise, a condition known
as Hypercritical.
27. This rising CO2
level stimulated His heart to beat faster in order to increase the delivery of
oxygen, and the removal of CO2.
28. The
Respiratory Center in Jesus' brain sent urgent messages to his lungs to breathe
faster, and Jesus began to pant.
29. Jesus' physiological reflexes demanded that He took deeper
breaths, and He involuntarily moved up and down the Cross much faster, despite
the excruciating pain. The agonizing movements spontaneously
started several times a minute, to the delight of the crowd who jeered Him, the
Roman soldiers, and the Sanhedrin.
30. However, due to the nailing of Jesus to the Cross and His increasing exhaustion, He was
unable to provide more oxygen to His oxygen starved body.
31. The twin
forces of Hypoxia (too little oxygen) and Hypercapnia (too much CO2) caused His
heart to beat faster and faster, and Jesus developed Tachycardia.
32. Jesus' heart beat faster and faster, and His pulse rate was
probably about 220 beats/minute, the maximum normally sustainable.
33. Jesus had drunk nothing for 15 hours, since 6 pm the
previous evening. Jesus had endured a scourging which nearly killed Him.
34. He was
bleeding from all over His body following the Scourging, the crown of thorns,
the nails in His wrists and feet, and the lacerations following His beatings
and falls.
35. Jesus was already very dehydrated, and His blood pressure
fell alarmingly.
36. His blood
pressure was probably about 80/50.
37. He was in
First Degree Shock, with Hypovolaemia (low blood volume), Tachycardia
(excessively fast Heart Rate), Tachypnoea (excessively fast Respiratory Rate),
and Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating).
38. By about noon
Jesus' heart probably began to fail.
39. Jesus' lungs probably began to fill up with Pulmonary Oedema.
40. This only served to exacerbate His
breathing, which was already severely compromised.
41. Jesus was in Heart Failure and Respiratory Failure.
42. Jesus said, "I thirst" because His body
was crying out for fluids.
43. Jesus was in
desperate need of an intravenous infusion of blood and plasma to save His life
44. Jesus could not breathe properly and was slowly
suffocating to death.
45. At this stage
Jesus probably developed a Haemopericardium.
46. Plasma and
blood gathered in the space around His heart, called the Pericardium.
47. This fluid
around His heart caused Cardiac Tamponade (fluid around His heart, which
prevented Jesus' heart from beating properly).
48. Because of the
increasing physiological demands on Jesus' heart, and the advanced state of
Haemopericardium, Jesus probably eventually sustained Cardiac Rupture. His
heart literally burst. This was probably the cause of His death.
49. To slow the
process of death the soldiers put a small wooden seat on the Cross, which would
allow Jesus the "privilege" of bearing His weight on his sacrum.
50. The effect of
this was that it could take up to nine days to die on a Cross.
51. When the
Romans wanted to expedite death they would simply break the legs of the victim,
causing the victim to suffocate in a matter of minutes. This was called
Crucifragrum.
52. At three
o'clock in the afternoon Jesus said, "Tetelastai," meaning, "It
is finished." At that moment, He gave up His Spirit, and He died.
53. When the
soldiers came to Jesus to break His legs, He was already dead. Not a bone of
His body was broken, in fulfillment of prophecy (above).
54. Jesus died after six hours of the most excruciating and
terrifying torture ever invented.
All He Asks You is
to Love Him, Your Lord, Your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your strength and with all your mind!! Can't you even do this for
Him?
