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Wednesday’s word: April 1, 2026…This Sunday we celebrate Easter. Celebrating the death, burial and resurrection….Consider this: Jesus had to have been crucified on Wednesday to have spent 3 days and nights in tomb. The Jews celebrated Saturday as the sabbath. Not trying to be argumentative but this would only make sense. And they crucified him.A medical doctor provides a physical description. The cross is placed on the ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown on 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 backward against the right foot and with both feet extended toes down a nail was 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 wrist excruciating fiery pain shoot along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain. The nails in the wrist are putting pressure on the median nerves as he pushes himself upward to avoid the 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 with deep relentless and throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the inability to push himself upwards 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 buildup in the lungs and in the bloodstream 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 renting 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 feels 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 grasp in small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of death creeping through his tissues finally he allows his body to die. All this the Bible records in Mark 15:24 with the simple words “and they crucified him”Evangelist Tim HallPart of this has been borrowed