The Uplifted Savior

The crufixicion Jesus faced was not new.

The amount of rejection and looniness .

No man can undergo this kind of pressure and be okay.

Jesus ministered to large crowds often. at the height of His game well loved.

The greatest mind to ever walk the face of this planet.

Just think about being completely rightoues and pure.

The prince of peace never laid a hand on any man.

But brought lower then a terroist

or a dictator. Umar Kadhi or Osama bin laden, Saddam Hussain

John 19:1 NLT

1 Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip.

This was Pilates attempt to free Jesus.

Pilate though that this should meet the Jews demand of punishment.

John 19:2–15 NLT

2 The soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him. 3 “Hail! King of the Jews!” they mocked, as they slapped him across the face. 4 Pilate went outside again and said to the people, “I am going to bring him out to you now, but understand clearly that I find him not guilty.” 5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said, “Look, here is the man!” 6 When they saw him, the leading priests and Temple guards began shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” “Take him yourselves and crucify him,” Pilate said. “I find him not guilty.” 7 The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever. 9 He took Jesus back into the headquarters again and asked him, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer. 10 “Why don’t you talk to me?” Pilate demanded. “Don’t you realize that I have the power to release you or crucify you?” 11 Then Jesus said, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.” 12 Then Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you release this man, you are no ‘friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel against Caesar.” 13 When they said this, Pilate brought Jesus out to them again. Then Pilate sat down on the judgment seat on the platform that is called the Stone Pavement (in Hebrew, Gabbatha). 14 It was now about noon on the day of preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said to the people, “Look, here is your king!” 15 “Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with him! Crucify him!” “What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the leading priests shouted back.

John 19:16–19 NLT

16 Then Pilate turned Jesus over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus away. 17 Carrying the cross by himself, he went to the place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha). 18 There they nailed him to the cross. Two others were crucified with him, one on either side, with Jesus between them. 19 And Pilate posted a sign on the cross that read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”

Crucifixion didn’t orignate with the Romans it originated with the Persians.

The crucifxion was just the climax of the judgement process of the victim.

Alexander the great crucifed 2000 men of Tyre before taking over the city.

But there was pre crucifixion

Jesus experience pre crucifxion twice, this was the flogging process.

Some pre crucifixion tortures is they will rack you. Which they will lay you down tie your wrist and to this roller and stretch your body.

They would burn your eye balls out.

some cases would burn your body.

They would abuse the family in front of you. Thats probably why Jesus and His disciples weren’t at the cross because of this fear.

Cicero, in his prosecution of Verres for illegally crucifying a Roman citizen, described what happened before the crucifixion: “He ordered the man to be whipped [with rods] most intensively on all parts of his body”

We see Jesus was flogged or scourge . These where whips with bone and or metal attached to them.

You where stripped and then tied to a post.

That happened to him twice once to appease the Jews because Pilate didn’t want Jesus executed at first and second time before Jesus was crucified.

All sorts of torture before the actual crucifixion.

After the precruciixion torture, the victim was compelled to carry his crossbeam.

In the John it says that Jesus carried the crossbeam

John 19:17 NLT

17 Carrying the cross by himself, he went to the place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha).

But in the synoptic we know Simon of Cyrene was forced by executioners to carry Jesus crossbeam

Matthew 27:32 NLT

32 Along the way, they came across a man named Simon, who was from Cyrene, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross.

The fact that Jesus needed help shows the amount of pain He was in.

John 21:18–19 NLT

18 “I tell you the truth, when you were young, you were able to do as you liked; you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and others will dress you and take you where you don’t want to go.” 19 Jesus said this to let him know by what kind of death he would glorify God. Then Jesus told him, “Follow me.”

Eventually Peter would have to carry his own crossbeam.

Fixinf the Victim to the stake.

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Fixing the Victim to the Stake

Pseudo Manetho (third century AD) describes how crucifixion must have looked: “Punished on their tortured [bodies], they see the stake (i.e., cross) as their fate. In the bitterest of torment, they have been fastened with nails, [to become] evil banquets for birds and terrible scraps for dogs” (Apotelesmatica 4.198f; Greek text in Hengel, Crucifixion, 9).

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Fixing the Victim to the Stake

Seneca describes a similar image: “Can anyone be found who would prefer wasting away in pain, dying limb by limb, or letting out his life drop by drop, rather than expiring once for all? Can any man be found willing to be fastened to the accursed tree, long sickly, already deformed, swelling with ugly tumours on chest and shoulders, and draw the breath of life amid long—drawn-out agony?”

Normally crucifixion took a long time. “The Ugly tumors” were probably the result of pre crucifixion tortures.

Also the victims who where crucified where likely naked.

Adam and Eve where naked when they sinned, Jesus was naked when He became sin.