At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death. At the time crusifiction was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals were condemned to be crusified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus. Unlike other criminals condemned to death by crusifiction 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 wrists not his palms as is commonly portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that extends to the sholder. The Roman guards knew that when the nails were hammered into the wrist that tendon would tear and break forcing Jesus to use his back muscles to support himself so that he could breathe. Also both 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 breathe. 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. Before the nails and the spear piercing his side Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore 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 body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than 1 gallon) of blood. Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had 3 nails hammered into His members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His chest. All this without mentioning the humiliation he suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat on His face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its highest part, were his hands 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 DIED FOR YOU! He said in Mathew 10;32-33: "Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I will acknowledge him before my Father in Heaven; But whoever denies me before others, I will deny him before my Father in Heaven".
