TITLE:  Crucified
TEXT:  Mark 15:21-38
PROPOSITION:   To appreciate the cross we must understand what was involved.
QUESTION:  What?
KEY WORD:  Sufferings
READING:  Mark 15:21-25

 INTRODUCTION:

1. We often glorify the cross (jewelry, steeples, etc.)
2. We fail to see the cross was not shiny gold.
3. It was pain and death.

 Verse by verse study

Simon compelled to carry cross – 21

Golgotha – place of skull – 22

Gave him wine with myrrh to drink – not accept it – 23

Parted his garments, gambling for his estate – 24

3^rd hour of the day = 9 AM – 25

Inscription – THE KING OF THE JEWS – 26

2 thieves on either side of Jesus – 27

Prophecy fulfilled (Isaiah 53:12) – numbered with transgressors – 28

Railed on him, wagging their heads, You can destroy the temple and build it in 3 days? – 29

Save yourself – come down from the cross – 30

Chief priests – He saved others, can’t save himself – 31

Descend from the cross that we may believe – 32

6^th hour there was darkness until 9^th hour (noon until 3 PM) – 33

At 9^th hour – My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? – 34

Thought he was calling for Elijah – 35

Sponge filled with vinegar, on reed – 36

Let him alone; see if Elijah comes to help him – 36

Cried with a loud voice, gave up the spirit – 37

Veil in temple tore from top to bottom –38

NOTES:

1. Cross – weighs 300 lbs, cross beam weighs 75 lbs.
2. Myrrh (gall) is a mild anesthetic
3. Nails = tapered spikes 5 to 7 inches long
4. Through wrist and arch of foot
5. Death came in 3 – 6 hours; up to 3 or 4 days
6. Spear from right side upward through both lungs and heart
7. Cause of death – can breath deeply in, but not exhale
8. Death is caused by hypercarbia (too much carbon dioxide, too little oxygen)
9. Loud cry and death could mean a cardiac rupture
10. Another explanation – clots in blood stream from opening and closing wounds moved to heart or brain