Death Of Christ

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Term Paper Title	Death Of Christ
# of Words	2449
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	9.8

Death Of Christ

Keith R. Jackson
February 16, 2000
NT 104, MWF 9:00am

The Death of Christ

EXAMINATION

     I chose to look into Jesus death and the people who were involved in it.  The first group of people who got hold of Jesus was the Roman soldiers.  They were probably the most innocent in the whole thing.  Granted they did perform the actual act of crucifying Christ, but it was because of the order that Pilate gave them.
As I looked into crucifixion and how it started I found that before Jesus was crucified, more than 30,000 men, in Israel alone, had already been crucified.  It all started by this guy named Ormazd from Persia.  He thought that the earth was sacred, so he did not want to defile the earth by killing criminals on it so he put them on a large pole and left them there to die.
After Pilate gave the order to crucify Christ the soldiers took him.  The part of their wickedness was not the act of crucifying Christ, it was by what they did to Jesus before they crucified him.  The scripture says in Matthew 27, that the soldiers, “gathered a full Roman cohort around Him.”  I looked into what a “full Roman cohort” was.  It seems that a total of 600 soldiers make up a full Roman cohort.  I also learned that Jewish people were given the right not to be in the Roman military.  I also fount out the cohort was traveling around with the governor as a military escort.   Because of that it is pretty safe to say they never heard of Jesus, other than the fact that He was being crucified because he was claiming to be some sort of king..
The soldiers knew that he claimed to be a king so they stripped him down and put a scarlet robe on him.  Next they took thorns and thistles and weaved a crown together and put it on Jesus head.  My understanding is that Caesar wore a wreath on his head and the soldiers were mimicking Him.  As they put the crown of thorns on Jesus head blood ran down on Jesus face, which made him even more unrecognizable.  The final piece of dress that the soldiers put on Jesus was a reed in his right hand.  The way John MacAuthur, Jr.  explained the reed was that it was to represent royalty, authority, and power.  After giving Jesus the reed the soldiers were making fun of Jesus by getting on their knees and pretending to worship Him.  They then took the reed from his hand and beat Jesus on the head with it while they were saying this like, “Look how easy we strip you of your power and authority.  We now beat you with your own staff.” Du...

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