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Thursday’s thought: April 2,2026THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUSAt the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death .At the time Crucifixion was the “worst” death. Only the worstCriminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was Even more dreadful for Jesus, unlikeOther criminals condemned to death by Crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the Cross by His hands and feet.Each nailWas 6 to 8 inches long.The nails Were driven into His wrist. Not Into His palms as is commonlyDone.There’s a tendon in the wrist that Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knewThat when the nails were being hammered into the Wrist that tendon would tear and Break, forcing Jesus to use His back Muscles to support himself so that He could Breath.Both of His feet Were nailed together. Thus He was forced toSupport Himself on the single nail that Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could Not support himself with His legs because of the painSo He was forced to alternate between arching His Back then using his legs just to continue toBreath. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the Suffering, the courage.Jesus endured thisReality 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 waterFrom his wounds.From common imagesWe see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear woundTo His side… But we don’t realize the pain of his wounds were actually made in his body. A hammer Driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped And an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But Before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped andBeaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the Flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that HisFace was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The Crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most menWould not have survived this torture.He had no more bloodTo bleed out, only water poured from His Wounds. The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters(just less than a gallon) of blood.Jesus poured all 3.5Liters of his blood; He had three 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 these without Mentioning the humiliation He suffered after carrying His own Cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his Face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight, Only for its higher part, where His hands were Nailed).Jesus had To endure this experience, to open the Gates of Heaven, So that you can have freeAccess to God.So that your sins Could be “washed” away. All of them, with no exception!Don’t ignore this situation.JESUSCHRIST DIED FOR YOU!Some of this is borrowed Evangelist Tim Hall