CoD of Jesus

[DamianWarS]

Jesus died on the cross, there is no argument there. I've been watching a lot of CSI lately and one thing that shows reveals is the CoD (cause of death) is usually quite specific.

Suffocation is a common way people died while being crucified. While on the cross there was a ledge or the minimum a nail through the feet that the victim can push their body up on in order to allow them to breath. This is why the Romans would typically break the legs of the their victims so they could no longer push up and they would eventually die not being able to breath. With Jesus of course we know this didn't happen, we also know his legs or any other bone was not broken so Jesus may not have died this way but he still may have lost the strength to push up.

Another theory could be hypovolemic shock which can be an unrecoverable state of shock when the body looses too much blood. The crucifixion wouldn't have cause this alone for Jesus but possibly the whipping prior to. Even though probably mostly superficial possibly there were some deep lacerations that added up to enough to warrant a significant blood loss.

Any thoughts on a specific CoD?

 

[pshun2404]

Researchers Edwards, Gabel, and Hosmer, published their conclusions for the whole world to review in the “Journal of the American Medical Association“ (255, 1455-1463), in March of 1986. My paraphrased brief synopsis of their analysis is as follows:

Jesus of Nazareth was arrested late at night, sometime after the evening Passover meal (the next day still being Passover until sundown, according to how the Hebrews reckon time, i.e., the evening and the morning being counted as a day“). He had been up all day long, traveling about, preaching and teaching. He was arrested in the very garden where he had often gone to rest and pray. Now though Hebrew Law entitled Him to a public trial, He was first tried sometime after midnight secretly by the Sanhedrin after the real Sedar meal, where he undoubtedly was at least verbally interrogated for some time. He was not given His right to present witnesses on His behalf. In addition to this situation, which would have produced great anxiety and tension for any average human being, he was then beaten, spat on, and was found guilty.

He was then marched approximately 2.5 miles to the residence of the Roman Procurator, Pontius Pilate, where after further interrogation, He was handed over to the exceptionally cruel Roman guards for sport. There He was blindfolded and bound, and they proceeded to take turns swatting the already pain racked victim about His face and ears with cupped hands from differing unexpected angles. They often alternately hit their victim, here and there, with short staffs and rods, as our history confirms happened in the case of Jesus.

He then was flogged with 39 stripes at the merciless infliction of a Roman flagrum. A flagrum is a short whip with six or more leather thongs that have been embedded with pieces of pointy bone and small sharpened iron spikes. The ends of the thongs were usually weighted with tiny lead balls to assure application of all the thongs. The flagrum is applied with a slap and drag motion at very close range. The doctors in this article described the back of such a victim as having to be “ripped with quivering ribbons of bleeding flesh“! As a result, there would be an immediately high degree of blood loss, quickly followed by shock, not to speak of the “obvious hematidrosis“, which is the extreme tenderness of the previous raw open wounds. Tender even to the air, hematidrosis of this kind would last at least a couple of days, if not longer, even for the strongest, youngest, and toughest person. They then tied a mock robe about his tender pain racked raw opened back, and then pierced Jesus’ skull with a crown of thorns! This process then led to another jaunt to Herod, and back to Pontius Pilate. This was a series of events that surely took all night to unfold.

Now the following morning, when the crowd chose for him to die, you can add His subsequent sleep deprivation, lack of food and water, lack of any kind of medical attention, the degree of massive blood-loss, and extreme traumatic shock to this list! Then, being convicted, Jesus of Nazareth was sentenced to be crucified.

He died from suffocation and blood loss...

 

[Gxg (G²)]

Researchers Edwards, Gabel, and Hosmer, published their conclusions for the whole world to review in the “Journal of the American Medical Association“ (255, 1455-1463), in March of 1986. My paraphrased brief synopsis of their analysis is as follows:

Jesus of Nazareth was arrested late at night, sometime after the evening Passover meal (the next day still being Passover until sundown, according to how the Hebrews reckon time, i.e., the evening and the morning being counted as a day“). He had been up all day long, traveling about, preaching and teaching. He was arrested in the very garden where he had often gone to rest and pray. Now though Hebrew Law entitled Him to a public trial, He was first tried sometime after midnight secretly by the Sanhedrin after the real Sedar meal, where he undoubtedly was at least verbally interrogated for some time. He was not given His right to present witnesses on His behalf. In addition to this situation, which would have produced great anxiety and tension for any average human being, he was then beaten, spat on, and was found guilty.

He was then marched approximately 2.5 miles to the residence of the Roman Procurator, Pontius Pilate, where after further interrogation, He was handed over to the exceptionally cruel Roman guards for sport. There He was blindfolded and bound, and they proceeded to take turns swatting the already pain racked victim about His face and ears with cupped hands from differing unexpected angles. They often alternately hit their victim, here and there, with short staffs and rods, as our history confirms happened in the case of Jesus.

He then was flogged with 39 stripes at the merciless infliction of a Roman flagrum. A flagrum is a short whip with six or more leather thongs that have been embedded with pieces of pointy bone and small sharpened iron spikes. The ends of the thongs were usually weighted with tiny lead balls to assure application of all the thongs. The flagrum is applied with a slap and drag motion at very close range. The doctors in this article described the back of such a victim as having to be “ripped with quivering ribbons of bleeding flesh“! As a result, there would be an immediately high degree of blood loss, quickly followed by shock, not to speak of the “obvious hematidrosis“, which is the extreme tenderness of the previous raw open wounds. Tender even to the air, hematidrosis of this kind would last at least a couple of days, if not longer, even for the strongest, youngest, and toughest person. They then tied a mock robe about his tender pain racked raw opened back, and then pierced Jesus’ skull with a crown of thorns! This process then led to another jaunt to Herod, and back to Pontius Pilate. This was a series of events that surely took all night to unfold.

Now the following morning, when the crowd chose for him to die, you can add His subsequent sleep deprivation, lack of food and water, lack of any kind of medical attention, the degree of massive blood-loss, and extreme traumatic shock to this list! Then, being convicted, Jesus of Nazareth was sentenced to be crucified.

He died from suffocation and blood loss...

Fascinating and good things to keep in mind