jesus of nazareth the jewish carpenter capitally killed in a method more horrifying than the electric chair or hanging with crucifixion a man could hang from a roman crossbeam for over a week dying of blood loss hunger and thirst a slow torture tedious death historians wrote about the atrocity to ready him to be crucified soldiers flogged him with thirty nine lashes roman laws said that forty was legal death so if he survived forty which was unlikely he was free from all charges so they subtracted one with a whip of shards glass bone and metal tied into the knotted cords this lacerated his flesh like a meat rake that shredded him so badly that he didn't look as a man but hung butchered meat reddening the ground under him it is written by his whip wounds (stripes) we are healed lifted up with nailed hands and feet thorn encircled head to the wooden tree lifted as the spectacle for all to see .06 10/8 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
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