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Dead Man Rising Matthew 28:1-10
The most important, influential and life altering event of the ages took
place on that early Sunday morning when Jesus walked out of that burial
tomb. Jesus, the Son of God had
really been dead. He had been publicly beaten and paraded down the
streets of Jerusalem to the execution hill known as Golgotha or Place of
the Skull. This was a place of
public crucifixion. Jesus wanted everyone to know he was dead.
He wanted no doubt in people’s minds as to the nature and
severity of his punishment and death. He was placed on a rough-hewn
cross and had large nails pounded into his hands and feet. This was
unique to the Roman period. At
no other time in history had crucifixion been used as a means of
execution until the Roman Empire instituted it as their preferred method
capital punishment. Death was slow and agonizing. Death came not from
blood loss generally but by suffocation.
When they soldiers had had enough and it was time to end this
session of crucifixion, they would come along and break the legs of
those on the cross so they could no longer push up and catch a breath.
With each breath the criminals would slump down and then would
push with their legs to catch a breath, but the pain from the spike in
their feet would be so excruciating they would slump back down.
But when they came to Jesus, they found he was already dead.
However, to make sure, they speared him in the side (most likely
a lance thrust up through the peritoneal cavity into the pericardium)
and out came blood and water. (See John 19:31-37).
You see, Jesus had hung on the cross for hours, bleeding,
thirsty, suffering and slowly suffocating.
Just prior to this Jesus cried out, “It is finished!” Which John
records in chapter 19:30. With
that said, he bowed his head and he died.
Jesus had been crucified about 9:00 AM (3rd hour)
according to Mark 15:25. Around
the sixth hour until the ninth hour (noon until three in the afternoon)
it was dark.
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