Crucifixion was a common form of execution used by the Romans to punish slaves and those guilty of breaking the law. It was adopted from the ancient Carthaginians of modern-day Tunisia.
Crucifixion was a common form of execution in ancient times, but the Romans used it as a tool to enforce social conformity in a particularly brutal way.
Crucifixion was a brutal punishment designed to instill fear in those who opposed Roman authority and was considered one of the cruelest forms of torture.
Movies show Jesus hanging on a cross until he dies, but there was more to death by a cross.
According to historical accounts, when a person’s entire body weight was supported by their stretched arms, suffocation was a common cause of death.
The person on the cross would have severe difficulty inhaling due to hyper-expansion of the chest muscles and lungs. When the person on the cross is no longer able to lift himself up, leading to exhaustion, the condemned would die.
Jesus, having lost much blood from the Scourging, had to use his legs to push up for every breath on the cross.
So when Jesus got tired from the loss of blood he no longer had the strength to push up and died of asphyxiation, he suffocated on the cross.
The crucified legs were broken or shattered with an iron club, an act called crurifragium. The reason for breaking the legs was so the one being crucified could no longer push up and would suffocate.
When the soldiers came to break Jesus’ legs at the end of the day, they saw that he was already dead.
John 19:32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs.
In the Old Testament, the Passover lamb could not have its legs broken.
Exdous 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Remember that Isaiah prophesied about this.
Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep, before her shearers are dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
John the Baptist declared Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
John 1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith. Behold the Lamb of God!
Jesus was crucified, and not one of his bones was broken.
Crucifixion was a method of capital punishment in which the victim is nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation.
Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful, gruesome, and humiliating since they were stripped naked, and for all the public to witness.
So Jesus gave his life for your sins, which was a cruel and disgusting punishment for a man who had never sinned.
2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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