Sufferings on the
Cross
Many people
don't know that pain and suffering our Lord, Jesus
Christ went through for us...because of the brutality,
crucifixion was given a sentence to only its worst
offenders of the law. Thieves, murderers, and
rapists would be the types of creeps who got crucified.
Yet, here Jesus is being crucified between two hardened
criminals... What did Jesus do? Did he murder anyone?
Did he steal anything? The answer as we all know is
NO!! Jesus did nothing to deserve this type of death,
yet he went willing to die, in between two thieves, so
that we might be saved. And there, in between the
sinners, was our slain savior for our sins.
See how the crucifixion
effects on the body according to a medical practitioner.
The cross is placed on the
ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown;
backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The
legionnaire feels for the depression at the front of the
wrist. He drives a heavy, square wrought iron nail
through the wrist deep into the wood. Quickly he moves
to the other side and repeats the action, being careful
not to pull the arms too tightly, but to allow some flex
and movement. The cross is then lifted into place. The
left foot is pressed backwards against the right foot,
and with both feet extended, toes down, a nail is driven
through the arch of each, leaving the knees flexed. The
victim is now crucified.
As he slowly sags down with
more weight on the nails in the wrists, excruciating
fiery pain shoots along the fingers and up the arms to
explode in the brain- the nails in the wrists are
putting pressure on the median nerves. As he pushes
himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, he
places the full weight on the nail through his feet.
Again he feels the searing agony of the nail
tearing through the nerves between the bones of his
feet. As the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through his
muscles, knotting them deep relentless, throbbing pain.
With these cramps comes the inability to push himself
upward to breathe. Air can be drawn into the lungs but
not exhaled. He fights to raise himself in order to get
even one small breath.
Finally, carbon dioxide
builds up in the lungs and in the blood stream, and the
cramps partially subside. Spasmodically, he is able to
push himself upward to exhale and bring in life-giving
oxygen. Hours of limitless pain, cycles of twisting,
joint wrenching cramps, intermittent partial
asphyxiation, searing pain as tissue is torn from his
lacerated back as he moves up and down against rough
timber. Then another agony begins: a deep, crushing pain
deep in the chest as the pericardium slowly fills with
serum and begins to compress the heart. It is now
almost over-the loss of tissue fluids has reached a
critical level-the compressed heart is struggling to
pump heavy, thick, sluggish blood into the tissues-the
tortured lungs are making frantic effort to gasp in
small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of
death creeping through his tissues...Finally, he can
allow his body to die... All this the Bible records with
the simple words, "and they crucified Him" (Mark
15:24).
What a painful experience
our Lord Jesus gone through the cross for our Salvation?
Oh! Marvellous love it is!!
Calling the day of the Crucifixion ‘Good’ Friday is a
designation that is peculiar to the English language.
In German, for example, it is called Karfreitag.
The Kar part is an obsolete word, the ancestor of
the English word care in the sense of cares
and woes, and it meant mourning. So in
German, it is Mourning Friday. And that is what the
disciples did on that day—they mourned. They thought all
was lost.
In
Malayalam, an Indian language also it is called "Dukha
Velliyazhcha" means "Mourning Friday".
Some people say it as "Valiya Velliyazhcha",
which means "Great Friday".
The
word “good” is thought to have an ancient secondary
meaning…holy. It’s also possible that Good Friday
is a contraction of God’s Friday, just as
good-bye is a contraction of God be with ye.
SEVEN VERSES ON THE CROSS
1. Then said Jesus,
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do
(Luke 23:34).
2. And Jesus said unto
him, Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me
in paradise (Luke 23:43).
3. When Jesus therefore
saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he
loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
Then saith he to the the deciple, Behold thy mother!
And from that
hour that deciple unto his own home (John 19:26-27).
4. And
about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
That is to
say,
My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me?
(Matthew 27:46; Mark
15:34).
5. After
this, Jesus knowing that all things where now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled,
saith, I thirst.
(John 19:28).
6. When Jesus
therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
it is finished: and he bowed his
head, and gave up the ghost (John 19:30).
7. And
when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,
Father, into thy
hands I comment my spirit:
and having said thus, he gave up the ghost (Luke
23:46).
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