The piercing of the feet was an important part of the crucifixion. When the victim was nailed in the feet to the cross, this was essential to them being able to breathe. As they hung with arms extended, breathing was very difficult and the person would have to push up with their legs onto their nail-pierced feet in order to inhale. It caused excruciating pain with every breath, but it was how the victim temporarily survived. This is why the guards would break the legs of the victim in order for the person to expire.
However, it was prophesied of Jesus that none of His bones would be broken. This final piercing of Jesus showed the state of His heart. The fact that both water and blood came out demonstrates the extreme stress and trauma He was under.
It was so intense that it brought about a condition known as pericardial effusion. This is where fluid builds around the heart and can be fatal. It is often said that this event shows that Jesus died of a broken heart. God demonstrated inexplicable love for the lost race in enduring this sacrifice for us.
Get our latest answers straight to your inbox when you subscribe here. All her life, Bridget had marvelous visions and received special messages from God. In obedience to them, she visited many rulers and important people in the Church. She explained humbly what God expected of them.
After her husband died, Bridget put away her rich clothes and lived as a poor nun. Later, in , she began the order of the Most Holy Savior, also known as Bridgettines. She still kept up her own busy life, traveling about doing good everywhere she went. And through all this activity, Jesus continued to reveal many secrets to her, which she received without the least bit of pride.
Shortly before she died, Bridget went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At the shrines there, she had visions of what Jesus had said and done in each place.
All of Bridget's revelations on the sufferings of Jesus were published after her death. Bridget died in Rome on July 23, Out of her immense love for Christ's Passion, which she had since childhood, St. Even Jesus predicted this in Matthew This is a physical representation of the spiritual act of propitiation , that is, Jesus took our place.
Just as the blood was sprinkled on the altar in Exodus , Jesus blood was sprinkled each time the whip dug into His flesh. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand.
Matt , ESV. The thorns that came into existence when sin perverted the Garden now dug into the brow of the King of the Jews Gen. He was crowned as king in mockery but is indeed the King of kings Rev. And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Luke , ESV. Nails were used in the hands and feet to speed up death while intensifying the pain. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. John , ESV. This brutal act was necessary to prove beyond a doubt that Jesus was dead. Even though He endured unimaginable suffering, Jesus is without complaint until the moment the weight of our sin separates Him from His Father.
While Jesus has been with the Father since before the creation of the earth, this separation from God has been the plight of every man since Adam. This separation from God is the deepest wound of all. And because Jesus took the punishment for our sins, we no longer have to live separated from the Father.
Each wound was miraculously healed upon His resurrection. Jesus walked out of the tomb whole and complete Luke He still bears the scars of sacrifice, but his body is now glorified. Just as Jesus experienced healing from the wounds He received while taking on the punishment for our sins, God promises to heal our wounds. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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