the passion of christ movie pictures theif on cross

This was not a hangman’s gallows like we see in Western movies with the looped noose, but was a large pole stuck into the ground, with the top sharpened to a point.

In the book of Ester, Haman builds a “gallows” 75 feet tall upon which he wanted to hang Mordecai (Esther 5:14). The first known practice of crucifixion was by the Persians, and it was closer to impaling a person on a sharpened pole than what we think of as crucifixion. Through that sequence of emails, I show how my thinking has changed about the death and resurrection of Jesus. To learn more about how my thinking has changed, sign up at the bottom of this page to receive my emails about the death and resurrection of Jesus. Today, I am not so sure that Jesus wants us to know how much pain and suffering He experienced on the cross. While I have no desire to be provocative in explaining the details of the crucifixion of Jesus, I do think it is important for us to understand the physical suffering of Jesus as it shows us how much we are loved and what he went through for us.Ģ015 Edit: My thinking has changed quite a bit since I wrote this article over ten years ago. Here is an image from the movie which is somewhat closer to how Jesus probably appeared: If there is one thing we can thank Mel Gibson for, it is showing us the graphic and torturous nature of the crucifixion in his movie, The Passion of the Christ. It looks like he stepped out of a shower, climbed up on the cross, and had some nails driven through his hands and feet…which hardly bled at all. For example, if you do an image search on Google for crucifixion, most of the images of Jesus are pretty clean. Two thousand years of separation has sanitized it. But since nobody is crucified today, few of us realize how painful and gruesome crucifixion was. I apologize in advance for the graphic nature of this post about the crucifixion of Jesus.

The passion of christ movie pictures theif on cross