This document discusses Jesus' crucifixion and the events of Holy Week according to the Gospels. It describes how Jesus was scourged, with the whipping tearing his flesh down to the muscles and causing extensive blood loss. Jesus was then nailed to the cross, with nails driven through his wrists rather than his hands. Breathing was difficult as he had to repeatedly lift his body up by his wrists and feet to avoid suffocation. The crucifixion was an extremely painful process that lasted at least six hours until Jesus' death. The document also analyzes the symbolic meaning of the robe, crown of thorns, and mocking paid to Jesus during his torture.

1. HAPPY PALM SUNDAY AND WELCOME
TO NORTH BONNEVILLE COMMUNITY
CHURCH
“THIS HOLY WEEK, WE ARE PRISONERS. OUR
SIN BINDS US AND BLINDS US TO GOD’S
WILL. BUT IN AN ACT OF UNFATHOMABLE
LOVE, JESUS STEPS FORWARD AND TAKES
THE PUNISHMENT MEANT FOR US. HE
EXCHANGES HIS LIFE FOR OURS. HOW WILL
THIS CHANGE US?”
CHRIST IN OUR HOME DEVOTIONAL
BOOKLET

2. MATTHEW 20:18-19B
“WE ARE GOING UP TO JERUSALEM, AND
THE SON OF MAN WILL BE BETRAYED TO
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE TEACHERS
OF THE LAW. THEY WILL CONDEMN HIM
TO DEATH AND WILL TURN HIM OVER
TO THE GENTILES TO BE MOCKED AND
FLOGGED AND CRUCIFIED.”

3. MATTHEW 27:27-31
“THEN THE GOVERNOR’S SOLDIERS TOOK JESUS INTO THE
PRAETORIUM (OLD PALACE OF KING HEROD) AND GATHERED
THE WHOLE COMPANY OF SOLDIERS AROUND HIM. THEY
STRIPPED HIM AND PUT A SCARLET ROBE ON HIM, AND THEN
TWISTED TOGETHER A CROWN OF THORNS AND SET IT ON
HIS HEAD. THEY PUT A STAFF IN HIS RIGHT HAND AND KNELT
IN FRONT OF HIM AND MOCKED HIM. HAIL, KING OF THE
JEWS! THEY SAID. THEY SPIT ON HIM, AND TOOK THE STAFF
AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD AGAIN AND AGAIN. AFTER
THEY HAD MOCKED HIM, THEY OFF THE ROBE AND PUT HIS
OWN CLOTHES ON HIM. THEN THEY LED HIM AWAY TO
CRUCIFY HIM.”

4. THE SOURGING OF JESUS
(1)IT ALL STARTED OUT WITH A SHORT WHIP WITH
SEVERAL STRANDS.
(2)EACH STRAND OF THE WHIP HAD A PIECE OF
METAL OR BONE ATTACHED TO THE END.
(3)THE WHIP WAS NOT LONG ENOUGH TO INJURE ITS
VICTIM BY RECOILING ON THE SKIN.
(4)INJURIES FROM THE WHIP CAME FROM THE PIECES
OF METAL AND BONE, WHICH PHYSICALLY RIPPED
THE SKIN APART!

5. THE SCOURGING OF JESUS
(5)THE FIRST FEW LASHES FROM THE WHIP BEGAN TO
TEAR AT THE SKIN; LATER, THE WHIP WOULD HAVE
TO BE YANKED FROM THE RIPPING FLESH.
(6)AT THE END OF THE SCOURGING MORE THAN 40
LASHES WORTH, JESUS’ BACK WOULD HAVE BEEN
NOTHING SHORT OF TORN TO SHREDS, IN OTHER
WORDS HIS BACK WAS RIPPED WIDE OPEN!
(7)EVEN JESUS’ MUSCLES WERE QUIVERING IN HIS
BACK AFTER BEING EXPOSED AFTER THE
WHIPPING.

6. THE SOURGING OF JESUS
(8)JESUS’ BLOOD WAS NOT ABLE TO CLOT
PROPERLY, HIS WOUNDS WERE SIMPLY
PUMPING OUT BLOOD OUT OF HIS BACK,
AND ON THE GROUND AROUND HIM – IN
OTHER WORDS HE LOST A LOT OF BLOOD.
(9)EVEN IF THE TORTURE HAD STOPPED HERE,
MOST EXPERTS IN THE MEDICAL FIELD HAVE
SAID JESUS MOST CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE
DIED WITHOUT THE CRUCIFIXION.

7. THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS
(1) ROMAN SOLDIERS DROVE A NAIL THROUGH THE BONES
OF HIS WRISTS AND NOT THE HANDS AND THERE IS A
REASON FOR THIS AS YOU WILL SEE!
(2) THE NAIL MAY NOT HAVE BROKEN THE BONES, BUT THE
NAIL WOULD HAVE SEVERED THE MEDIAN NERVE WHICH
WOULD HAVE CAUSED JESUS’ HAND TO INVOLUNTARILY
CLENCH IN WRENCHING PAIN.
(3) JESUS FEET WERE THEN POINTED DOWN ONE OVER
ANOTHER AND THEN NAILED TO THE CROSS.
(4) THE TOTAL GOAL OF A CRUCIFIXION WAS SUFFOCATION.

8. THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS
(5) BECAUSE JESUS’ ARMS WERE STRETCHED UPWARD AND
OUTWARD, JESUS HAD TO RISE UP – PLACING HIS WEIGHT
ON HIS NAIL PIERCED FEET IN ORDER TO JUST SURVIVE.
(6) AND NOW THE REASON FOR THE NAILS IN THE WRISTS:
JESUS’ NAILED WRISTS SERVED AS THE AXIS FOR THIS
UPWARD MOVEMENT AND THE PAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN
EXTREMELY EXCRUCIATING AS JESUS MOVED UP AND
DOWN JUST TO DRAW IN AND OUT BREATHS.
(7) JESUS BACK WAS TORN APART BY THE SCOURGING –
IMAGINE JUST FOR A MOMENT THE PAIN AS IT SCRAPPED
AGAINST THE SPLINTERY POLE AS HE GASPED FOR AIR!

9. THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS
(8)THIS WAS NOT A QUICK EVENT FOR JESUS –
JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS AT LEAST SIX
HOURS – RISING AND PAINFULLY FALLING
UNTIL HE DIED – IN FACT JESUS’ FINAL CRY
OF “IT IS FINISHED” WOULD HAVE BEEN
DESPERATE AS IT WAS BRIEF!

10. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ROBE, LAUREL WREATH,
STAFF, AND THE MOCK HOMAGE
(1)SCARLET ROBE: CRIMSON OF ROYALTY
(2)LAUREL WREATH: VICTOR’S WREATH IN
TRUTH
(3)STAFF: THE MEEK SCEPTER BECOMES
RELEVANT FOR THE MEEK SAVIOR
(4)THE MOCK HOMAGE OF “HAIL, VICTOR!”:
THE HOMAGE OF THE ENTIRE REVERENT
WORLD