Crucifixion Of Jesus

The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

Many subjects have been spoken of over the history human beings. For some time it may have a world war, at other times a great recession, in another day it would have been a very fast athlete, at others the final match of Champions League and many more. Yet in all these occurrences that grip the human mind for some time there is no occurrence more spoken than the crucifixion of a man called Jesus Christ (Zugibe 33). His crucifixion has even been a study for the entire lifetime of many people. Institutions have been built primarily for the purpose of studying this crucifixion. Some have said this crucifixion has changed their lives. Others have retorted that it has lifted off their worries. It is widely known and embraced. However, aside from all this, with all the goodness this man Jesus Christ is preached to have, many wonder why he would be killed on a cross.

Back in the days the cross was not just any other means of killing anyone. No. The cross was mainly used to kill run away slaves. During the times of Jesus many people were slaves to their Roman masters. When such slaves tried to run away, they would be crucified. To the Roman world it was the most shameful death of all because one would be hanged naked. As a result, no Roman citizen would ever be executed by hanging. Hanging was for second-class citizens. The cross was also the most torturous means of killing bad people in the society. This is because as one hung there; they would get tired of holding themselves up to breath and slowly die from suffocation. Their knees would be broken so as to ensure they do not support themselves. Eventually suffocation killed them. The Romans borrowed the concept of crucifixion from the Egyptians. The Egyp...

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...as a man out of this world. He had healed many. He had fed so many people. He had taught these people and they could feel God’s undying love for them. The theory of the Just War theory would justify these people to fight and die for this one person. However, Jesus stops any further justification on the same by the fact that he healed Malchus’s ear and he told Pilate his kingdom was not of this world.

A world that lacked morality would not be habitable (Mattison 59). It would be so unfair. Injustice would prevail and wisdom would not thrive in it. That is the story of Jesus. That is the world he had to face when on this earth. It loathed him. It hated him. From his birth it planned to kill him. In his lifetime it sought to stone him. It is really amazing to hear him say when it finally killed him that, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.”